Liane Young

to outgroup hatred. They're doing this to retaliate. They're doing this to attack us. And so it's very interesting that we see this asymmetry in how people are attributing motives underlying the very same actions, depending on whether those acts are being performed by people on our side or people on the other side.

I think we do that all the time. And we do that in the ways that we interpret the intentions and actions of our friends as opposed to people we don't know or people that we know but don't like. We give our friends the benefit of the doubt. We give ourselves the benefit of the doubt. We don't want to see ourselves as... Bad people. We don't want to see our friends as bad people.

I think we do that all the time. And we do that in the ways that we interpret the intentions and actions of our friends as opposed to people we don't know or people that we know but don't like. We give our friends the benefit of the doubt. We give ourselves the benefit of the doubt. We don't want to see ourselves as... Bad people. We don't want to see our friends as bad people.

I think we do that all the time. And we do that in the ways that we interpret the intentions and actions of our friends as opposed to people we don't know or people that we know but don't like. We give our friends the benefit of the doubt. We give ourselves the benefit of the doubt. We don't want to see ourselves as... Bad people. We don't want to see our friends as bad people.

And so, again, if you encounter a friend doing something morally ambiguous, you might make up an excuse for why they did that in order to... read their behaviors as fitting with your narrative of being friends.

And so, again, if you encounter a friend doing something morally ambiguous, you might make up an excuse for why they did that in order to... read their behaviors as fitting with your narrative of being friends.

And so, again, if you encounter a friend doing something morally ambiguous, you might make up an excuse for why they did that in order to... read their behaviors as fitting with your narrative of being friends.

And so it's very interesting that we see this asymmetry in how people are attributing motives underlying the very same actions in very different ways depending on whether those acts are being presented as performed by people on our side or people on the other side.

And so it's very interesting that we see this asymmetry in how people are attributing motives underlying the very same actions in very different ways depending on whether those acts are being presented as performed by people on our side or people on the other side.

And so it's very interesting that we see this asymmetry in how people are attributing motives underlying the very same actions in very different ways depending on whether those acts are being presented as performed by people on our side or people on the other side.

I think it's really useful for both relationships and also for ourselves to give others around us the benefit of the doubt. I think it makes for smoother social interactions and also for happier selves, right? What I've told my students is that if you have a bad interaction with someone, chances are they're not trying to offend you or insult you. Maybe they're having a bad day.

I think it's really useful for both relationships and also for ourselves to give others around us the benefit of the doubt. I think it makes for smoother social interactions and also for happier selves, right? What I've told my students is that if you have a bad interaction with someone, chances are they're not trying to offend you or insult you. Maybe they're having a bad day.

I think it's really useful for both relationships and also for ourselves to give others around us the benefit of the doubt. I think it makes for smoother social interactions and also for happier selves, right? What I've told my students is that if you have a bad interaction with someone, chances are they're not trying to offend you or insult you. Maybe they're having a bad day.

Maybe they didn't get enough sleep. And I tell them to... sort of think about our one-on-one interactions in the same context, that if we have a bad conversation, it's probably because, you know, I am feeling bad that I yelled at a kid that morning and it has nothing to do with, you know, their paper or their project.

Maybe they didn't get enough sleep. And I tell them to... sort of think about our one-on-one interactions in the same context, that if we have a bad conversation, it's probably because, you know, I am feeling bad that I yelled at a kid that morning and it has nothing to do with, you know, their paper or their project.

Maybe they didn't get enough sleep. And I tell them to... sort of think about our one-on-one interactions in the same context, that if we have a bad conversation, it's probably because, you know, I am feeling bad that I yelled at a kid that morning and it has nothing to do with, you know, their paper or their project.

And so, again, we come back to this idea of giving people the benefit of the doubt and, you know, taking intentions into consideration. I also think about times when I'm on the road and I get upset when other drivers cut me off.

And so, again, we come back to this idea of giving people the benefit of the doubt and, you know, taking intentions into consideration. I also think about times when I'm on the road and I get upset when other drivers cut me off.

And so, again, we come back to this idea of giving people the benefit of the doubt and, you know, taking intentions into consideration. I also think about times when I'm on the road and I get upset when other drivers cut me off.

And there's really nothing that I can do about it aside from give them the benefit of the doubt because I know that when I'm the one who's speeding or cutting other people off, Usually it's because, you know, my three-year-old in the backseat says she needs to go to the potty or because we're rushing to an event and we're late.