Losing sight of oneself in the above-average effect: When egocentrism, focalism, and group diffuseness collide

Križan, Zlatan; Suls, Jerry

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2008.01.006

Cited by 36 publications

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“…This indicates that the characteristics of the first hire, and their relationship to the entrepreneur, may moderate the entrepreneur's ''illusory superiority'' regarding the first hire. Another consideration to be borne in mind is that the phenomenon of illusory superiority may no longer hold when the hiring team consists of more than one individual, because of other social psychological phenomena such as focalism and group diffuseness may play a role and even neutralize any egocentric ''illusory superiority'' effect (Krizan and Suls 2008). Furthermore, entrepreneurs will differ in their degree of overconfidence (Forbes 2005).…”

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confidence: 99%

My first employee: an empirical investigation

2016

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The challenge for solo entrepreneurs to add their first employee is arguably the single biggest growth event facing any growing firm. To understand how this event affects performance, and the antecedents of hiring, we analyse Danish matched employer-employee data. Those who hire enjoy superior sales outcomes in subsequent years, while the dispersion in profits increases. Furthermore, those that hire enjoy faster sales growth in the previous year, suggesting that sales growth precedes the first hire.Finally, we show that founders with a stronger profile in terms of education and previous income are more likely to increase profits, while the characteristics of the employee are less important. The latter finding is important from a job creation perspective, in light of the suggested sorting of more marginalized employees into new and established firms.

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confidence: 99%

My first employee: an empirical investigation

2016

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“…In the area of self-esteem, the associations between the two parallel processes tend to be even poorer (see Krizan & Suls, 2008, for a meta-analysis). However, exploring their relationships with different outcomes received a special attention, most often from the clinical domain.…”

Section: Career Adaptabilities At the Interplay Between Explicit And mentioning

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Relationships of career adaptabilities with explicit and implicit self-concepts

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Journal of Vocational Behavior

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“…The nonselective superiority bias (NSSB) is the phenomenon where participants consistently judge individual members of a positive set of items (e.g., five attractive vacation spots, five pleasant smelling soaps) as superior to most other members in the set (Bruchmann et al, 2013;Giladi & Klar, 2002;Klar, 2002;Krizan & Suls, 2008;Suls et al, 2010;Windschitl, Conybeare, et al, 2008). This systematic judgment of all items in a set as superior to each other violates elementary logic, as some members cannot be better unless others are worse.…”

Section: The Nonselective Superiority Biasmentioning

confidence: 99%