In the last blog, we
listed the various barriers that could arise in social perception. In today's
blog we discuss a few of these for better understanding.
In organizations,
when you are a manager you would sometimes finds a situations where a reporting
employee is not really getting along with his/her colleagues well, but the output
of the employee is exceptionally good. When we evaluate the performance of the
employee; many a times, we ignore the negative information regarding the
employee and only choose to evaluate based on the impact of the work created.
This tendency to ignore information that makes us feel uncomfortable, while only
considering aspects that support our view is called Selective Perception.
We have heard the
common saying - "Birds of the same feather flock together". It is
surprising how much of information this saying could give us when it comes to
Projections. It is our common nature to be with people who are alike, but this
could create a bias in our minds which would let us o believe that all people are
alike and in agreement with us. When interact with the people who do not have
believe in similar things as we do, we tend to have misperceptions about these
people. This nature of ours to overestimate the number of people who share our
beliefs, values and behavior is called Projection, i.e. we project our
personality on the people around us.
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