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根据下面资料，回答题 An article in Scientific American has pointed out that empirical research says that, actually, youthink you're more beautiful than you are. We have a deep-seated need to feel good about ourselvesand we naturally employ a number of self-enhancing strategies to achieve this. Social psychologistshave amassed oceans of research into what the call the "above average effect"or "illusory superiority", and shown that, for example,70% of us rate ourselves as above average in leadership,93% in
driving and 85% at getting on well with others--all obviously statistical impossibilities.
We rose-tint our memories and put ourselves into self-affirming situations. We become defensivewhen criticized, and apply negative stereotypes to others to boost our own esteem, we stalk aroundthinking we're hot stuff.
Psychologist and behavioral scientist Nicholas Epley oversaw a key study into self-enhancementand attractiveness. Rather than have people simply rate their beauty compared with others, he askedthem to identify an original photograph of themselves from a lineup including versions that had beenaltered to appear more and less attractive. Visual recognition, reads the study, is "an automatic psychological process occurring rapidly and intuitively with little or no apparent conscious deliberation".
If the subjects quickly chose a falsely flattering image--which most did--they genuinely believed itwas really how they looked.
Epley found no significant gender difference in responses. Nor was there any evidence that thosewho self-enhanced the most ( that is, the participants who thought the most positively doctored pictureswere real) were doing so to make up for profound insecurities. In fact, those who thought that the images higher up the attractiveness scale were real directly corresponded with those who showed other
makers for having higher self-esteem. "I don't think the findings that we have are any evidence of personal delusion", says Epley. "It's a reflection si~nply of people generally thinking well of themselves". If you are depressed, you won't be self-enhancing.
Knowing the results of Epley's study, it makes sense that why people hate photographs of themselves so viscerally--on one level, they don't even recognize the person in the picture as themselves
Facebook, therefore, is a self-enhancer's paradise, where people can share only the most flatteringphotos, the cream of their wit, style, beauty, intellect and lifestyles. "It's not that people's profilesare dishonest, " says Catalina Toma of Wisconsin-Madison University, "but they portray an idealizedversion of themselves. "
According to the first paragraph, social psychologist have found that_______. A．our self-ratings are unrealistically high
A．our self-ratings are unrealistically high
B．illusory superiority is baseless effect
B．illusory superiority is baseless effect
C．our need for leadership is unnatural
C．our need for leadership is unnatural
D．self-enhancing strategies are ineffective
D．self-enhancing strategies are ineffective
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