Nicholas epley
2 articles-
Taking Another Person’s Perspective Doesn’t Help You Understand Them
To understand someone, we should not imagine their point of view but make the effort to “get” their perspective. -
Why We Love to Blame 2016
You may have noticed it by now: the—I guess I’ll call it an impulse—to anthropomorphize “2016.” It began gradually. First, we objectified it, likening it to a disturbing film, a force of nature, broken hardware. As Slate put it:In trying to wrap our heads around 2016’s all-reason-and-logic–defying onslaught of tragedy and absurdity, we objectified the […]