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When they got them rejected it's because there's a conspiracy
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against them by jealous editors and reviewers.
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There is this asymmetry all the time.
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The asymmetry has been found in athletes, in CEOs and in accident reports.
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And again, this is sort of a positive enhancement technique.
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You think that you're terrific and because you're terrific the good things
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that happen to you are due to your terrific-ness;
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the bad things are due to accident and misfortune.
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The final aspect of self that I want to talk about
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is the idea that what you do makes sense.
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And this is one of the more interesting sub domains of social psychology.
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The idea was developed by the social psychologist Leon Festinger