How To Analyze people Ultimate Guide: Learn Psychology, Body Language, Perception, Types of Personalities & Universal Rules (1) by Jason Gale

Author:Jason Gale [Gale, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2017-07-03T16:00:00+00:00

The Thought Experiment

Our psychology teacher once showed us how perception could be manipulated at will. She showed us a documentary based on a thought experiment, which proved how unreliable eyewitnesses can behave and how problematic this can be for a judicial system that is meant to be objective in nature.

A room full of eyewitnesses of a staged crime is divided into two groups for the purpose of questioning. Group A is asked if the perpetrator was blond. Group B is asked if the perpetrator was a brunette. This question was repeatedly asked over the course of one week on different occasions. Some denied while most of them did not. When they were asked the same question after a gap of one whole month, over ninety percent people in-group A claimed that the perpetrator was blond. Over 90 percent people in-group B claimed that the perpetrator was a brunette. None of them realized that the perpetrator was bald underneath the cap that he was wearing.

When you ask a question in a certain way, the witness can construct false notions and claims. This line of questioning can create memories that never even existed or happened in the first place.

Why does it happen?

There is no absolute truth. The mirrors of perception enable us to take a stand for what we believe in. If you notice closely, most conflicts arise because we tend to take a stand for what we believe in and the other person takes a stand for what they believe in. Now, if you take a step back and empty yourself from your perception and look at things from a different perspective, you will be amazed by just how convinced you feel.

Everything that we consider a possibility is possible because of our perception. Therefore, an individual’s perception shapes their reality. Try to make it an objective one that is free of bias and prejudice.

Perception Is Our Instagram Filter

If 20 people watch the same thing, at the same time, all of them are going to have a different perception. Perceptions are formed based on personal experiences of one’s life. Perceptions can be challenged and changed.

We have to realize our perception is dictated by our own personal biases, preconceived notions, and reinforced by possible stereotypes. There is something called Rorschach test, which you might of heard of? It's actually quite intriguing tool, and this is how it works; a subject is exposed to a picture of an ink blob of some sort and asked to tell the psychologist what he/she sees? Now this test is used to examine personality disorders and emotional functioning of an individual, now the point I am trying to make here is not everyone sees the same thing! A bit of a mind bender I know, but the truth is its people's perception that affect the way they view things. Everyone's mind operates a bit differently and some maybe more cynical, creative or optimistic than others.

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