Fundamental Attribution Error: You judge others based on their personality. However, when it comes to us, we tend to justify according to the situation.- Self Serving Bias: Your failures are situational, but your success is your responsibility.
- Favouritism: You tend to favour your close circle as compared to those who aren’t a part of your immediate friend circle.
- Halo Effect: We believe that our positive traits will spill over into our other qualities just like our negative traits. One trait does not cancel out the other.
- Curse of Knowledge: Once you know something, we tend to assume others are aware too. However, that is not the case.
- Spotlight Effect: You assume your embarrassing behaviours are noticed more by others even if they are not seen.
- Pygmalion Effect: Belief in one’s performance tends to push them to improve their skills to achieve more.
- Semantic Satiation: A word, sentence or concept tends to lose it’s value when repeated often.
These behavioural patterns often stick with us due to conditioning and belief system and it may be tough to change opinions. However, the more we learn from this, the easier it becomes to break patterns and do what’s right for us.
Until next time.
