How To Avoid Judgment In Your First Impressions

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I think i've formed so many first impressions of people, and probably the same thing, people have formed them about me, and they haven't been correct. If people are making assumptions just based on like the structure of your face, you can bet thathey're going to make assumptions based on the first things that you say to them or what some one else says about them That may not be actually rooted in truth. What this means is that we naturally judge other people. You really just can't stop yourself from doing that. But what i find is that my first impressions are often wrong. Sometimes they're right, and you do have to listen to them. But instead of listening to them

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.