SciShow Psych: You Don't Know Yourself as Well as You Think

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: Vanessa's BrainCraft video on the power of self-awareness: https://youtu.be/IvepyL211Lo How people assess their abilities doesn't often line up well with how they objectively perform. However, there does seem to be a good reason for this, as well as a way that people can get better. Hosted by: Hank Green & Vanessa Hill ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1999-15054-002?doi=1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19568317 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24298196/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022103173900103 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1975-26584-001 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022103173900103 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47457937_Deconstructing_the_Better-Than-Average_Effect https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24359153 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022103173900103 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167208316921 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11031-007-9072-y https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/fundamental-attribution-error https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691613518075 https://hbr.org/2015/03/research-were-not-very-self-aware-especially-at-work https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691613518075 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-00584-009 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618818476 https://connect.springerpub.com/content/sgrijhc/13/3/36 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/875697280203300407 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00296/full Images: https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/failing-to-hit-the-target-gm847506210-139548637 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/airplane%C3%A2s-cockpit-gm1096223862-294332964 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/hand-putting-coins-in-glass-jar-for-giving-and-donation-concept-gm813128966-131505063 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/first-guitar-class-gm941495764-257331072 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/planning-the-route-to-fun-gm1094338146-293700906 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/class-at-high-school-gm1131868657-299843221 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/whops-i-have-burnt-the-cake-gm1096842658-294509882 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/i-think-the-cake-was-baked-a-little-longer-than-it-should-mommy-gm1132277751-300097794


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