Roy, Michael M.; Liersch, Michael J.; Broomell, Stephen - In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 122 (2013) 2, pp. 200-213
People have been shown to view their beliefs as being prototypical (modal) but their abilities as (falsely) unique (above or below average). It is possible that these two viewpoints – self as prototypical and self as unique – can be reconciled. If the distribution of ability for a given...