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How to Make Sense of Other People
Social psychologists are interested in how humans make sense of the behavior of other people. So one of the questions that immediately comes to mind is how do I make sense of someone else's thoughts and feelings? "I can't peer into your head right now, but I'm not completely flummoxed by what's going on inside your mind," he says. In contrast, if the person's dissimilar from me, maybe they have very different political values or come from a very different cultural background, the brain will engage in very different kinds of processing.