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How to Really Know Another Person

Hidden Brain

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Can Perspective Take Really Improve Your Ability to Read People?

Bona Boudreau: People are often told to take other people's perspectives as the cure for mistreating their minds. She says this advice is still widespread, but it does nothing for accuracy. In some cases, they actually backfire and lead you to be even more egocentric in your head than if I hadn't given you that manipulation at all," she says.

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