From William von Hippel at Behavioural Scientist:
Freud and Socrates regarded self-deception as a protective mechanism. The world is an inhospitable place, it doesn’t regard me as highly as I’d like to be regarded, and so I protect myself from that knowledge by believing that I’m better than I really am, that people like me more than they really do, etc...
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