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The evolution and psychology of self-deception.
von Hippel, William, Trivers, Robert. The Behavioral and brain sciences 2011: 34(1), 1-16. Discussion 16-56 
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Gilovich, T., Medvec, V. H., & Savitsky, K. (2000). The spotlight effect in social judgment: an egocentric bias in estimates of the salience of oneʼs own actions and appearance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78(2), 211-222.
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Pronin, E., Gilovich, T., & Ross, L. (2004). Objectivity in the eye of the beholder: divergent perceptions of bias in self versus others. Psychological Review,111 (3), 781-799. 
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The Illogicality of Stock-Brokers: Psychological Experiments on the Effects of Prior Knowledge and Belief Biases on Logical Reasoning in Stock Trading
Knauff M, Budeck C, Wolf AG, Hamburger K (2010) 
PLoS ONE 5(10): e13483. doi:10.1371
Self-Awareness and the Emotional Consequences
of Self-Discrepancies
Ann G. Phillips, Paul J. Silvia
Pers Soc Psychol Bull May 2005 vol. 31 no. 5 703-713
doi: 10.1177/0146167204271559
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Lifting the Veil of Morality: Choice Blindness and Attitude Reversals on a Self-Transforming Survey
Hall L, Johansson P, Strandberg T (2012) 
PLoS ONE 7(9): e45457. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0045457
What is the Role of the Self in Self-Deception
Richard Holton
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Williams, E. F., & Gilovich, T. (2008). Do people really believe they are above average? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44(4), 1121-1128. 
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Bias Blind Spot

Ehrlinger, Joyce (2000). Peering Into the Bias Blind Spot: People’s Assessments of Bias in Themselves and Others
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Peering Into the Bias Blind Spot: People’s Assessments of Bias in Themselves and Others
Joyce Ehrlinger, Thomas Gilovich, Lee Ross
Pers Soc Psychol Bull May 2005 vol. 31 no. 5 680-692
doi: 10.1177/0146167204271570
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Our Most Dangerous Bias
From www.farnamstreetblog.com - April 11, 2013 
Perhaps our most dangerous bias is that we naturally assume that everyone else is more susceptible to thinking errors, a tendency known as the “bias blind spot.” This “meta-bias” is rooted in our ability to spot systematic mistakes in the decisions of others—we excel at noticing the flaws of friends—and inability to spot those same mistakes in ourselves. Although the bias blind spot itself isn’t a new concept, … it applies to every single bias under consideration, from anchoring to so-called “framing effects.” In each instance, we readily forgive our own minds but look harshly upon the minds of other people.