Do others know you better than you know yourself?
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We’re the only ones who really know how we feel inside, however friends are better judges of how intelligent and creative we are.
Via Science Daily:
Simine Vazire, Ph.D., Washington University assistant professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has found that the individual is more accurate in assessing one’s own internal, or neurotic traits, such as anxiety, while friends are better barometers of intellect-related traits, such as intelligence and creativity, and even strangers are equally adept as our friends and ourselves at spotting the extrovert in us all, a psychology domain known as “extroversion.”
“I think that it’s important to really question this knee-jerk reaction that we are our own best experts,” says Vazire.
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