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Giant Brain Candy: Solomon’s Paradox. People reason more wisely about a friend’s relationship trouble than about their own. Picture your own from a distance, and the gap disappears. Source: Self-distancing and wise reasoning.
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  1. Grossmann, I., & Kross, E. (2014). Exploring Solomon’s paradox: Self-distancing eliminates the self-other asymmetry in wise reasoning about close relationships in younger and older adults. Psychological Science, 25(8), 1571–1580.

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Solomon’s Paradox

People reason more wisely about a friend’s relationship trouble than about their own. Picture your own from a distance, and the gap disappears.

Source: Self-distancing and wise reasoning · Strong evidence

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