Recently I stumbled across Wikipedia's List of Cognitive Biases. Some of them are really intensely interesting, and I definitely suggest you check some of them out. Some of the ones that blew my mind in particular were these:
Illusion of asymmetric insight - People perceive their knowledge of their peers to surpass their peers' knowledge of them
Illusion of transparency - People overestimate others' ability to know them, and they also overestimate their ability to know others
Outcome bias - the tendency to judge a decision by its eventual outcome instead of based on the quality of the decision at the time it was made
I feel like if we all had an active awareness of our biases, we would all probably be much better people overall. I'm going to make a conscious effort to keep these in mind from now on. Hoping it'll help me understand people a little bit more and be more sympathetic.
Peace out.
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