RE: Safety, Efficacy and Effectiveness6 Aug 2022 19:24
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The tendency toward unrealistically optimistic self-serving biases, known as trait self-enhancement, has been associated with both adaptive benefits and negative social consequences.
Self-enhancement can occur in a variety of ways. A few examples include exaggerating one's virtues, claiming that one's successes are a reflection of ability whereas failures are due to external circumstances, or preferentially remembering positive rather than negative information about oneself.
When our need for validation of our own actions, words, behavior, attitudes, and even physical appearance become borderline obsessive, then we’ve crossed over into an unhealthy yearning for recognition. We are looking in the outside world for what we cannot find in our own interior world.