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Problems When Interpreting People’s Behaviour

Problems When Interpreting People’s Behaviour

When interacting with strangers, we only know what we can see. Our interpretations of their actions are often wrong as we don’t know the entire context.

  • Assume people have good intentions and they will be more likely to behave well (self-fulfilling prophecy).
  • When making attributions about people, look at the bigger picture and consider the entire context, so that you can prevent the fundamental attribution error (the tendency to attribute people’s behaviour to their personality instead of the situation).
  • Remember that everyone grew up differently, so how you view the world is totally subjective.

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Psychology student with a passion for learning and developing as a person.

This is a summary of the German book "Die Power der persönlichen Präsenz" by actor and psychologist Benedikt Crisand.

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