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How to Read A Person Like A Book by Oscar Bruce
The human mind is an innovative hybrid that allows us to anticipate future - to think big thoughts. That's good news.
However, a growing number of psychologists and behavioral scientists are finding evidence that our brains are hard-wired for mistakes in today social environment, especially when it comes to assessing personality and predicting behavior of people we encounter.
Why are we so bad at reading intentions of others? Built on top of older "emotional" parts of our mammalian circuitry, there is a "rational" cerebral cortex. The two are often at odds, and under surface, our protective instincts are always lurking. Unfortunately "emotional" circuitry frequently overwhelms "rational" cortex. When we encounter people we simply give more weight to elements in their personalities that support our beloved preconceptions than to any evidence to contrary. Thus we frequently completely miss target and pay a price of our misjudgments.
ARBITARY OBSESSIONS The frontal lobes have fallen in love with our preconceptions. This hard-wired programming undercuts us in a host of sadly familiar ways. The most common is way our preconceptions and prejudices distort our perception of individuals we wish to assess.
CONFIRMATION BIAS This is our all too natural ability to convince ourselves of whatever it is that we want to believe. How? We simply give more weight to events that support our desired prejudice or preconception than to any evidence to contrary.
