How to Avoid Judgment in Your First Impressions

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"We naturally judge other people. You really just can't stop yourself from doing that," she says. "Instead of listening to them, i try to understand how some has come to behave the way they do or believe what they do." The first is to seek to understand, not judge. And often that helps you develop ampathy and compassion for how they came to be the way they are.

Among the many biases that we can fall prey to, one of Calvin's favorites is the fundamental attribution error. The bias, sometimes known as the "correspondence bias", is your tendency to assume that someone's behavior is due to the "kind" of person they are, rather than the circumstances impacting them.

In this episode, Calvin and Steph discuss the cognitive bias, why it matters, and how we can combat it.