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Personal Narrative: My Initial Hypothesis

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My Initial Hypothesis In a restroom, in a church or anywhere else in the world you will judge a person by their appearance whether it be negative or positive, you cannot help it, it just happens whether you like it or not. For an example, when you are walking down the street and you see someone wearing ripped up clothes and bad hygiene then you automatically assume negative things such as beggar, homeless or even possibly a drug abuser. Being judged can go a different way also, you can think of someone as a rich, snobby individual because they are wearing very nice clothes and act a certain way but in all actuality, they could be a wonderful person. A more serious case of people judging other people that I have noticed is that most people …show more content…

Simon explains why. “It is getting a kick out of making negative moral assessments of other people, it is enhancing your own sense of moral worth by comparisons with the (supposed) lesser moral status of others, it is finding satisfaction in seeing others fail because it shows you are better than they are. People who tend to feel morally inferior feel relief when they see others fail; by comparison that they are not so bad after all. People who lack appreciation of their own potential for moral failure enjoy having their false sense of moral superiority reinforced. Those who are judgmental are invested in one-up-man ship (Simon, 2012).” Being judgmental misrepresents our perception of others, ourselves and of what is truly important in our short sweet lives. Judgmental-ness feeds on and provokes a lack of understanding for others. Being judgmental is often linked with other related character flaws such as hypocrisy, self-righteousness, hatefulness, insensitivity, and the enjoyment of destructive …show more content…

Sometimes these gut feelings about another person are sensible: “She looks friendly. I’ll ask her for directions.” Other times, though, those feelings can be riddled with unsupported assumptions, biases, and stereotypes that tarnish our behaviors, interactions, and decisions: “He looks honest. I’ll invest with him.” Our parents may have taught us not to judge a book by its cover. But even if the cover doesn’t always tell the truth, the title printed on the cover might. (Rule, 2005).” In this study, it helps explain that judging can be subconscious, we may not know that we are doing it but we are judging. For an example, let’s say that you are interviewing someone for a job in your lab. After getting rid of the applicants who do not have any of the right skills or experience, you find yourself left with a few of the applicants who are all equally qualified for the job. When making the final decision, you decide to ask each applicant some questions by making inferences about each person’s work ethic, by reading between the lines in their letters of recommendation, and last but not least by comparing numbers like their grade-point averages or their standardized test scores. Then you discover that the candidate seated across the desk in your office shares your love of dogs that you do, that she also used to spend her summers in Vermont or that her brother

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