Our Minds Are Black Boxes-Even to Ourselves

This PsyBlog was talking about whtat we think of ourselves and others just by information we have. They did an expirement of a person called Jill. They had 128 participants to judge weather if she was the right person or not for the job of working in a crisis center. Some of the "Judges" were told different things then others. They then had to tell how much she sympathy she had, how much the judges liked her, and howmuch flexibility she showed for solving problems.

The result of seeing what we think of someone before we actually know them is...DIFFERNT. People thought that because she had good looks that she would be more sympathic but the judges judged her to be less sympathic and so on.

It's kinda interesting reading that what we think can be totally different until we know someone, It's just like the common saying, "Don't judge a book by its cover."