February 2002
Beginner to intermediate
240 pages
3h 16m
English
Did you ever notice that people are pretty good at deflecting blame for failures, yet they’re quick to take credit for successes? This is not a random occurrence. In fact, it’s predictable.
Our perceptions of people differ from our perceptions of inanimate objects such as desks, machines, or buildings because we make inferences about the actions of people that we don’t make about inanimate objects. Nonliving objects are subject to the laws of nature, but they have no beliefs, motives, or intentions. People do. The result is that when we observe people, we attempt to develop explanations of why they behave in certain ways. Our perception and judgment of a person’s actions, therefore, will ...
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