What Is the Similar-To-Me Effect

What is the similar-to-me effect?

A) It is the tendency to perceive others who are like ourselves more positively than we perceive people who are different.
B) It is the tendency to focus attention on individuals who are conspicuously different from us.
C) It is the tendency to perceive individuals with a higher position in the social hierarchy more positively than we perceive those with a lower position in the social hierarchy.
D) It is the tendency to perceive individuals with disabilities as noncontributors to society.
E) It is the tendency of individuals to see themselves more positively than others around them.