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BFLPE

BFLPE is the initialism of big-fish-little-pond effect.

Meaning of big-fish-little-pond effect

Noun

big-fish-little-pond effect (plural big-fish-little-pond effects)

  1. The tendency of individuals to compare their own self-concept with their peers, which suggests that equally capable individuals have higher self-concepts when in a less capable group than in a more capable group.
    Synonyms:
    BFLPE

Forms of BFLPE

pluralBFLPEs

Questions about BFLPE

What is BFLPE the initialism of?
BFLPE is the initialism of big-fish-little-pond effect.

Words near BFLPE in the dictionary

  1. BFHs
  2. BFI
  3. BFILE
  4. BFILEs
  5. bfing
  6. BFLPE
  7. BFLPEs
  8. BFLS
  9. BFM
  10. BFMs
  11. BFN

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Adapted from Wiktionary: BFLPE (page history and authors); big-fish-little-pond effect (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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