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Are we really bad at reading people? Politeness may skew the evidence (opens in a new tab)

medicalxpress.com · 2026-09-14

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Claim 1 of 7Not checkedA new ESMT Berlin study suggests that many widely held assumptions about social misjudgments may stem from flawed study designs.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 2 of 7Not checkedAcross 13 experiments, those social pressures can create or even reverse apparent biases.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 3 of 7Not checkedThe findings do not rule out such biases, but they cast doubt on the existing evidence for them.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 4 of 7Not checkedPrevious research compared predictions about others' reactions with self-reports, even though the two types of answers are subject to different social pressures.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 5 of 7Not checkedIn one experiment, participants imagining the frog-and-acorn scenario showed the same predictor-reporter gap seen in studies of real-world actions.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 6 of 7Not checkedWhen participants were instructed to answer as very polite or very impolite people, the apparent bias grew under polite instructions and fully reversed under impolite ones.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 7 of 7Not checkedThe authors say current methods cannot reliably tell whether people are accurate judges of how others see them, and they call for designs that verify predictions against measurable outcomes rather than self-reports of internal feelings.View evidenceHide evidence

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