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you are better than average in every possible way, each one of you.
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And finally, what you do makes sense. If it doesn't make sense, you'll--
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If it doesn't make sense or, more to the point,
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if it's something that you do that's foolish
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or makes you look manipulative or cheap,
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you'll distort it in your head so that it does make sense.
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I want to move now to how we think about self and other,
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how we think about ourselves relative to how we think about other people.
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And this brings us to the notion of attribution.
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So,an attribution is a claim about the cause of somebody's behavior and Heider--
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Now, there's all sorts of reasons for somebody's behavior.
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Suppose you insult me or suppose you're very kind to me.