Turing The Tables, By Roger Shepard

Judgment is something we visualize, experience, and are exposed to at a very young age, unrelatedly of the content being arbitrated. There are many reasons it is so easy for one to judge another, especially when it comes to the topics relating to ones beliefs and behaviors.

Fat. Ugly. WeIrd. Different. TALL. short. Freak. Some of the few words that go through peoples’ minds when they are judging others. What do I know about judging? Judging is something we all do, even if we don’t like to admit it. I wish that I didn’t judge others, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t. The image that people portray to the public is what most people are going to judge them for. People judge based on looks, lifestyle, your house value, car worth, job description, the way you act.

Social Judgment Theory is a change in persuasion through perception and evaluation given the positions of latitudinal acceptance, rejection, and non-commitment. Latitudinal acceptance is the array of ideas that a person views as reasonable or worthy of consideration. Latitudinal rejection is the ideal reason a person views something unreasonable or objectionable. Latitudinal non-commitment is the ideal reason someone views something as acceptable nor objectionable. R. O. McElwee & D. Dunning conducted two studies measuring “whether the ‘self’ in self-serving definition of social categories is truly limited to the current self, or whether it may be broader, such as including possible selves.” (McElwee & Dunning, 2005, p. 116). The first

Each of us builds a “picture” on how we feel and look at another person, which in turn outputs an opinion or stereotype. We will call this personal construct in this paper. Personal constructs are specific descriptions of others that people assigns personally from their own experience and knowledge. Similarly Trenholm (2014) defines personal constructs as “characteristics that we habitually notice in others” (p. 47). You know the old saying, “what you don’t know, won’t hurt you”? With personal constructs, if you don’t understand your own constructs it could hurt your ability to communicate with others by being unfair. For me to understand when I’m using personal construct constructively or negatively I must understand what kind of

But if we want to be objective coordinated, and positive we have to think that way. We will engrain these convictions in our mind, treating them as truth. We are likewise influenced by our initial surroundings: If we were hopeless and forlorn, we might develop to feel unworthy or uncomfortable socially. We may likewise copy or tackle the states of mind that our initial guardians had toward themselves. On the off chance that they were self-despising, tentative, or discouraged, we may copy these attributes or view ourselves as having these same qualities in adulthood. Our mindsets like to box us in, categorized by a personality we were born with and not one that we created. It can be dubious and surge us with musings that are apparently self-relieving. It's simpler, all things considered, to perceive an inside adversary when it's shouting at you that you're inept or disappointment. Shurr said that "people want to grow flowers all they do though is water the weeds. What you think about most you will move towards in your life. People come to be all the time and say I want to lose wight, or I want to quit smoking. Instead, they should think and say I want to eat healthily and clean fresh water. I want to breathe clean, fresh air. Even if you say non-smoker your brain hears smoker. You need to focus on what you want instead of what you do not want.

Throughout life an individual observes and registers specific events which has happened to themselves or another person. In this logic they develop into gatherers of information, which is then processed and organised, establishing Schemas or world views (Baron & Branscombe, 2013). These include but are not conclusive to their own behavior, other people’s, as well as past events. Furthermore this information acquired subsequently guides individuals to organize their cognitions. As well as providing an explanation of the world for themselves to comprehend (Hogg & Vaughan, 2013). This can be achieved either unconsciously or consciously. Part of this process allows a person to make a judgement if someone is similar to themselves or different. Dissimilar individualities may be utilised to establish these divisions. For example how an

Nonprejudice refers to the tendency of an individual to acknowledge and emphasize similarities between themselves and others, as opposed to focusing on the differences. Nonprejudice is not on the same continuum as prejudice, as an absence of prejudice does not necessarily mean that an individual will be more open to

We have preconceptions of others before we know them because we have had past influences that relate to that person. Now there is absolutely nothing good about this but that doesn’t mean we can stop it in any way. Criticizing someone can help us see what we don’t like in ourselves. “If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” In this quote Paulo Coehlo explains in the alchemist the negative aspects of having presumptions. We all act deprecatory and that is a fact, we even cavil subconsciously. This is as easy for me as it would be for anyone, quibbling about others is a natural instinct and denying that we do it is lying to ourselves. The biggest mistake is to believe that the disparaging of others is avoidable because it isn’t. This is for a constitutional right to live freely, its freedom of

The world is mostly based off labels. Most of these labels are given to people by others who don’t even know the one being given the label. I believe that no one should be judged or given a label by someone who does not fully understand their personality and ways of life. Every day, many struggle to deal with the idea that others have a negative opinion of them. Sometimes being associated with the wrong people can give others this opinion of you, or sometimes people might hear something that someone has spread about you, whether true or not, that can lead them to forming their opinion of you. Either way, I believe that one’s opinion of you should not lead you to doing things that make you unhappy or uncomfortable, just to please them. Labels are often wrongly given, because many don’t fully learn about someone else before giving them a label.

It's easy to judge others based on what you think they're about without getting to know them. Instead of judging others, learn to be tolerant and open to people who are not like you. You'll often find that you're more alike than you think.

Thousands of people around the word are prejudice against other people because of their race or how they act or many other things. I believe that being prejudice to people is not the right thing I think that people should be nice to each other equally because everyone is your family. People that are racist to other think that they are cool but the person that they are making fun of will be bigger than that person someday. People should not judge a book by its cover because you don’t know what is deep inside it.

As a child, one could place a sheet of a paper containing a math problem in front of my eyes, and my eyes would be locked in a state of enthrallment. It was as if I was in my own world-- a numbers world. It would be until the problem was solved that my own self would return to the real world with a rushing sensation of pure happiness.

judge me and others, and if you didn’t know me I could be all these things but I’m not.

First impressions are more powerful than most take into expectation when encountering an unfamiliar person. Upon communication, individuals affect their personal lives though the use of information in which their cognitive process of responding to/creating messages correlate relationships and surrounding environment. When making a first impressions, the image in which the individual makes himself/herself out to be (which is considered their perceived self) takes on two measures when encountered by the aspect of an ideal self and the way they’re identified by others. The first being “Reflected Appraisal” theory in which the individual’s image mirrors what they expect others to perceive them as. Second in parallel contingency is the self comparison to others in which one creates self-based image known as “Social Comparison” theory. The actions of verbal and nonverbal communications carry out the person’s appearance in the first impression through one’s intellectual competence as well as their emotional intelligence. The definition of social comparison, “the search for and utilization of information about other person’ standings and opinions for the purpose of self-assessment,”(460 Suls & Wheeler), from Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology: Volume One, heightens the parallelism to the reflected appraisal theory in the aspect of the individual's image being adjusted to the expectation of self from others.

I have always believed that who you are as a person can define how others will treat you. Some people will only look on the outside, so they will think that is who we are. Those people will probably use stereotypes to say this is what they are like and act like. Some of these people will be teachers, who might have a unconscious bias of you or others. Others will just look at your past for who you are and who you will become. This is especially true, if you have experienced traumatic events in your lifetime. Few people will look past all of these parts just to see if maybe someone is amazing inside. These people will know you better than most, so they