For at least the past decade, social psychologists have provided evidence that perspective taking (viewing the world through another person’s eyes) leads to a decrease in stereotyping. This makes ...

We have all probably heard a variation of the phrase “don’t judge others until you walk a mile in their shoes.” The meaning of it is to take time to imagine what life is like for other people before ...

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Citations: Galinsky, Adam, Gordon Moskowitz. 2000. Perspective-Taking: Decreasing Stereotype Expression, Stereotype Accessibility, and In-Group Favoritism. Journal of ...

Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, realized that being a good leader required being a good mind reader. “I see my task as serving the majority of people,” he said in an interview to Forbes. “The ...