scarlett95:
ed, do you think you perhaps project negative intent or emotions onto other people on sc? you have a tendency to be hostile, perhaps that is why you view others as hostile too?
scar has it exactly correct, its called the false consensus effect. when people assume that everyone is the same as them. i have tried to explain this to people here and they dont get it.
NOT EVERYONE IS LIKE YOU!
"In psychology, the false-consensus effect or false-consensus bias is an attributional type of cognitive bias whereby people tend to overestimate the extent to which their opinions, beliefs, preferences, values, and habits are normal and typical of those of others. This cognitive bias tends to lead to the perception of a consensus that does not exist, a "false consensus"."
