People differ in awareness of flaws more than in the flaws themselves

Evidence

One might doubt the accuracy of the prejudiced subjects’ glowing appraisal of himself and his parents on the ground of manifest improbability. People are simply not that good. Characters are always flawed by fearfulness or dependency or antagonism. People do not greatly differ in the degree to which they possess faults and shortcomings but only in their awareness of such unwelcome traits. Where character flaws are not explicitly confessed it must be because the subject does not want to be aware of them. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 536

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 536