![]() There are so many random variables that can determine how successful you become and exactly where you end up. The second problem with thinking about the end results is that the end result we pick is arbitrary and in many cases our chances of achieving our desired end result are often beyond our control. They are lag measures, not lead measures, and as a result they only tell us how we are doing long after we have a chance to make improvements and adjust our approach. The problem, however, is that these are end results that we use to judge ourselves. We ask ourselves if our house is big enough, if our car is fancy enough, if we have a good enough job, and if we took a good enough vacation this year. So often in our lives we look at the end results. I really like the way that Duke thinks about life, happiness, and process. This is a WEIRD way to think about the world, and something we should be aware of as we try to understand ourselves and our societies. We make fundamental errors in this attribution process and that can be quite damaging for ourselves and society in the long run. All of these are examples of us making a WEIRD judgment about an individual’s dispositions and projecting specific traits across all contexts for the individual and the groups to which they belong. We segregate our neighborhoods economically so that we can get away from lazy people who can’t hold good jobs. We hear a passionate campaign speech and assume a political figure and their party can do no wrong. We lock up criminals for a long time because we assume they are purely evil. And this can lead to many problems like bias (both positive and negative), discrimination, halo effects, and segregation. ![]() We further project those traits among broader groups to which the individual belongs. We project traits associate with that behavior onto the individual and assume that those traits are consistent across all contexts and relationships for the individual. ![]() We make judgments about other people based on how we see them act and behave in one context. Our tendency toward dispositionalism and essentialism is more common in WEIRD societies than in other societies.
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