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Verbal Messages (Recognize Complexity (Allness: particularly relevant when…
Verbal Messages
Recognize Complexity
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Thinking you may know all there is to know about someone but then they show you another side of them
For example, people I went to high school with are very fake and act like they like you, but then turn around and speak ill of you to others
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Talk about the middle
Polarization: the fallacy of "either/or" is the tendency to look at the world and to describe it in terms of extremes
Examples: good and bad, healthy and. sick, brilliant and stupid, rich and poor
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Extentionalize
Intensional orientation: tendancy to view people, objects, and events in terms of how they are talked about or labeled
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Update messages
Static evaluation: retain an evaluation of a person, despite the inevitable changes in the person
Your evaluations of yourself and others needs to keep pace with the rate at which you mature and grow
Facts and inferences
Fact-inference confusion
Language enables you to form statements of facts and inferences without making any linguistic distinction between the two
