Cognitive Biases
  • Social
  • Memory
  • Politics
  • Belief

Naive Cynicism

We believe that we observe objective reality and that other people have a more egocentric bias in their intentions and actions than they actually do.

Example“The only reason this person is doing something nice is to get something out of me.”
What to doBefore assuming a selfish motive, think of one generous reason someone might have acted the same way.