André Vaz

And so it's like, well, all of them are jerks, but not mine, right?

So mine, I know them and they're good.

So I think to an extent, it also speaks to this dissociation, right?

So Congress people in general versus that one Congress person.

So actually one of my collaborators and my PhD advisor, he keeps bringing this up, that what helps to him is, you know, every time he makes a comment like, yeah, people are the worst, to just ask himself, okay, but who?

Who is the worst?

You know, is it that person?

Is it that person?

And then the answer is always, no, it's none of them, right?

It's always just these imaginary people that, yeah, doesn't really correspond to any specific one that you know.

Well, not even necessarily, right?

But just think of the group as individuals, as a collection of individuals.

And that might tone down.

Thank you so much for inviting me.

Yeah, it's a pleasure to be here.

That's an excellent question.

To be sure, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure, actually, if it's that people downgrade others or if it's just individuals themselves that are kind of raised above the default cynicism.

So, I mean, even before mentioning my own specific research, I can tell there's already some research over the last few years that

Kind of looks at, yeah, different reasons.

And of course, I think one, to me, interesting, maybe less so for lay people, is just that when people are making judgments about others, they tend to think about, you know, like the constraints that they consider when they're predicting the behavior of others.