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Mind Reading 2.0: The Double Standard

Hidden Brain

CHAPTER

The Yardstick That We Use in Judgmenting Others

Psychologist emily pronan has spent years study this discrepancy in our perceptions. She found that much of the discrepancy comes down to the different yard sticks we use in judging ourselves and others. The process is, it's almost like if you imagine a fork in the road and it just goes two different ways. There's the path that we use for self judgment, and there's the paththat we use for judging others. And when i say look inwards, i mean we look to things like our thoughts, feelings, intentions, motives.

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