Focus on introspection came to the fore later
December 2022 | New Scientist |
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Who are you
10 December 2022 | New Scientist |
39 Daniel Leising at the Technical University of Dresden in Germany. The problem for me is that my perceptions of how other people see me, known as metaperceptions, are broadly aligned with how they actually see me according to how they scored me on the Big Five personality traits – notwithstanding my underestimation of how deeply annoying I can be in full flow. The thought occurs to me that maybe all this would have been juicier had it turned out people really do think I’m obnoxious. But when I reflect on the overwhelming agreement among them that I am belligerent and loquacious, I can see what Leising means when he says that our metaperceptions are often wide of the mark. The upshot is that if you want a complete picture of your personality, you ought to seek out some feedback. For Green, author of a book called Know Thyself: The value and limits of self-knowledge , the idea of the “adaptive unconscious” adds support to the argument. This is a set of mental processes that affects tasks, she found that friends’ ratings were more accurate than self-ratings for traits such as intelligence and creativity – but that the opposite was true for neuroticism. So maybe it is more accurate to say that those who know us well see things we don’t see in ourselves, particularly when it comes to aspects of our personality that we care about and thus find it harder to judge accurately. Generally, insofar as there is anything approaching objective truth about who you are, it lies in an aggregate of other people’s perceptions. In which case, I am not the person I think I am after all. “To a large extent, you are what most others think of you,” says Download 0.95 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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