Dunning–Kruger effect

People feel better about themselves when they're more obviously superior

Psychological stress resulting from multiple contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values held at the same time

Cognitive bias of assuming that others have the same background to understand

Learning model relating the psychological states in progressing from incompetence to competence in a skill

Subtype of delusion

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

Extreme pride or overconfidence, often in combination with arrogance

Overestimating one's abilities and qualifications; a cognitive bias

Psychological pattern of doubting one's accomplishments and fearing being exposed as a "fraud"

Personality trait of self-love of a fake perfect self

Personality disorder that involves an excessive preoccupation with personal adequacy, power, prestige and vanity.

Based on invalid reasoning or premises that cannot be proved or disproved

Cognitive bias that causes someone to believe that they themselves are less likely to experience a negative event

Bias in which a person's subjective confidence in their judgment is greater than the objective accuracy of those judgments

Concept that people in a hierarchy are promoted until no longer competent

Pretense of virtue; failure to follow one’s own expressed moral principles

Psychology concept

Distortion to enhance self-esteem, or to see oneself overly favorably

Psychological defense mechanism articulated by Alfred Adler

whose writing in 1939 described a similar phenomenon to Dunning–Kruger

Psychological concepts often used in connection with narcissism

Giving opinions on topics poorly understood

Focusing on what is irrelevant but easy to understand

Famous saying by Socrates