<p>Apparently individuals suffering from schizotypy <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372844/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">lack illusory superiority</a> in one particular domain: evaluation of their affect. That is to say, neurotypicals overrate their positive affect (and underrate their negative one), whereas individuals with schizotypy don't do either relative to how their affect is perceived by others.</p>

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<p>There's another article which concludes that the five-factor model is <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2009.07.018" rel="nofollow noreferrer">good enough</a> to capture schizotypy, although in practice (insofar) specialized tests are used to detect the latter. </p>

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<p>That begs the following question: <strong>do any of the big five personality factors</strong>, especially those that load most heavily on schizotypy (neuroticism, introversion, low openness to experience) <strong>have a moderating effect on illusory superiority (in some domain) on their own</strong>? By "on their own" I mean: is there a correlation between any of the big five (or even HEXACO) factors and lessened illusory superiority (on some issue), including via an <a href="http://methods.sagepub.com/reference/encyclopedia-of-survey-research-methods/n226.xml" rel="nofollow noreferrer">interaction effect</a> of the factors, but found without segregating the sample into schizotypy and non-schizotypy?</p>

<p>N.B.: I'm aware of the controversy surrounding <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism" rel="nofollow noreferrer">depressive realism</a>, but let's stick just to personality here.</p>

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This reminds me of [depressive realism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism) and likely faces the same challenges: Improved accuracy in some domains at the expense of reduced accuracy in others.
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Do any personality factors reduce illusory superiority?
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# Do any personality factors reduce illusory superiority?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-04-14)

Apparently individuals suffering from schizotypy [lack illusory superiority](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372844/) in one particular domain: evaluation of their affect. That is to say, neurotypicals overrate their positive affect (and underrate their negative one), whereas individuals with schizotypy don't do either relative to how their affect is perceived by others.

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/LOrUS.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/LOrUS.png)

There's another article which concludes that the five-factor model is [good enough](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2009.07.018) to capture schizotypy, although in practice (insofar) specialized tests are used to detect the latter.

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/WIciu.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/WIciu.png)

That begs the following question: **do any of the big five personality factors**, especially those that load most heavily on schizotypy (neuroticism, introversion, low openness to experience) **have a moderating effect on illusory superiority (in some domain) on their own**? By "on their own" I mean: is there a correlation between any of the big five (or even HEXACO) factors and lessened illusory superiority (on some issue), including via an [interaction effect](http://methods.sagepub.com/reference/encyclopedia-of-survey-research-methods/n226.xml) of the factors, but found without segregating the sample into schizotypy and non-schizotypy?

N.B.: I'm aware of the controversy surrounding [depressive realism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism), but let's stick just to personality here.

**Tags:** personality, abnormal-psychology, bias, big-five

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: This reminds me of [depressive realism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism) and likely faces the same challenges: Improved accuracy in some domains at the expense of reduced accuracy in others.  

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