Nov 21, 2006 14:30
I have a query! Please answer it! It came up in conversation today.
Do you think people who enjoy having fun, have a bubbly personality and are generally happy are unintelligent?
I, of course, think this is complete and utter bullshit, but I'd like to know what everyone else's impressions are. Thanks!
-SoccerChicka, the Questing Questioner
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Since we can't read people's minds (yet) we don't know what is on the inside so we can't say for sure that by seeing them for the first time that it will give us a strong representation of who they are.
Take me for example.
I can be bubbly sometimes around people who I am most comfortable with. Sometimes I may have a broken brain where nothing I do or say comes out right, but that doesn't make me unintelligent.
In social psychology there is a definition for a judgment like that: the fundamental attribution error, where we perceive someone as such upon first meeting them, then we treat them as such, and eventually these people come to act like out original judgment call on them, BECAUSE how we treat them, not because it pertains to their personality at all. Plus situation isn't accounted for.
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Example, I had a very happy stage not too long ago every weekend I was out partying, I was having a blast but all my conversations consisted of things like flirty comments and the boring "how are you", "good" back and forth conversation, basically I thought of nothing and talked of nothing.
Roght now I would not be answering this if I was in a happy stage, the truth is I care less about things when I'm happy...maybe because I'm rarely happy but anyhow thats just my crazy thoughts.
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