Fooling Ourselves

A Psychological and Social Process

  • Self-confirming
  • Groupthink


Why We Do It

  • Aggrandize our own perceived value
  • Establish continuity between past and present
  • Increase projected sincerity in deceiving others
  • Perpetuate optimism to heal or to have something to look forward to
  • Increase motivation, even delusion in competitive performance

How We Do It

1.  Create a Bias - Favorable Self-Evaluation
  • Feedback
  • Comparison - Driving
  • Trait Identification

2.  Maintain the Bias
  • Reconcile dissonance 
  • Self-persuasion

3.  Self-Defense
  • Denial
  • Rationalization
  • Repression
  • Dissociation
  • Projection


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