Reply #114: I think I've answered my own question! see attached

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This was in the science news today.

High Self-Perception, Low Brain Activity

By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on January 7, 2010

Researchers have discovered the less you use your brain’s frontal lobes, the more you see yourself through rose-colored glasses.

“In healthy people, the more you activate a portion of your frontal lobes, the more accurate your view of yourself is,” says Jennifer Beer, a University of Texas assistant professor of psychology.

“And the more you view yourself as desirable or better than your peers, the less you use those lobes.”

Those findings are being published in the February edition of the journal NeuroImage.

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Some subjects who had accurate views of themselves showed four times more frontal lobe activation than the most extreme “rose-colored glasses” wearer in the study.
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Those findings suggest that processing information in a more deliberate manner may be the way in which frontal lobe activation permits people to come to more realistic conclusions.

“Subjects made unrealistically positive judgments about themselves more quickly, suggesting these judgments require fewer mental resources,” Beer says.