The danger of positive self-evaluation

Most people are inclined towards a highly positive self-evaluation and are motivated to maintain it at a high level. It expresses self-attitude, self-esteem, extremely important in defending against anxiety, fear, anxiety.
Highly positive self-evaluation can distort reality and give rise to illusions that can not be fulfilled.
The risk of positive self-evaluation was highlighted by Bushman's experiment in which participants who responded affirmatively to most of the statements, "The world would be considerably better if I led it" (self-evaluating positively) provoked strong electric shocks to those who criticized them.
The conclusion of the experiment was that negative assessment is not responsible for the emergence of life problems in relations with others or committing crimes, but over-evaluation, positive self-appreciation (after Septimiu Chelcea).

The Result Development study of 1132 Romanian participants reveals the tendency of Romanians to consider themselves "better", more "honest," more competent, more disciplined, more generous, etc. with about 21% more compared to others and about 26% less "bad". And these average trends are what we call the normal, reasonable error of over-evaluation. Much of the Romanians are beyond these limits. In other words, many Romanians overestimate themselves to defend themselves, but also to show themselves well, developing an accentuated culture of distortion.

A recent study in the US highlighted that 90% of managers assess their own top 10% performance. We can confirm from our assessments the tendency of approximately 90% of managers to over-estimate with grades 6 and 7 on a scale from 1 to 7. It is incredible where it can be reached without having control over reality. And we can win it by taking into account the perceptions of others through feedback from others. And the biggest danger of overvaluation comes from managers who overstate themselves, who swell to reach elephants. Because the overstepping of one's own void causes the contact with reality to break. And this may be a sign of schizophrenia.

Source: revistacariere.ro