For instance..my sister looks at me as irresponsible & lazy, but she can confide in me. My friend views me as fun and a good listener. This other man thinks i'm quiet and mean. While this woman looks at me as sweet & nice.........I find it so interesting how different people view the same person....Do you?
2007-02-07 17:29:45 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Sociology
Somewhat.
It is interesting how easily some people can be fooled. Also interesting how many people think that the front they put on is believable.
I remember years ago, I was working with several other guys just out of the Army. A secretary working there had written a note to her boyfriend saying that she was working with "a rough looking bunch of freaks", which we probably were. All but one just thought it was funny, but one fellow really took it to heart. Interesting how much importance some people put in the opinions of others.
2007-02-07 17:41:47 · answer #1 · answered by Gaspode 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because people have differences in opinion, that is why you get different perception from each of them. Even if they live in the same house, study in the same school, etc., they will still differ in opinion. Even brothers and sisters sometimes clash. Take for example, Simon Cowell. A lot perceive him to be rude and unapologetic. But at the same time quite a number of people love his brutal frankness and being right on.
2007-02-11 22:03:30 · answer #2 · answered by Lee C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Totally! Learning through relationships is based on projection - sometimes by ourselves on to others and other times by others on to us. Though it is not an "iron law" that all aspects in relationships follow this law, the extent to which it is true is rather remarkable. Mass hysteria is well worth musing about in relation to projecting. I met a lady who rubbed me the wrong way ever so often and it was not until I moved away that I realized some of the things I disliked about her were things I was personally fighting to overcome which led me to the realization that the things she accused me of were her own shortcomings - which were obvious to me but not to her. Ho ho!?! I am toying with the idea that people project negatively because we want to disassociate ourselves with the things we dislike and positive projection is the opposite: affirming the things we like and understand. Hmn!?!
2007-02-08 18:10:32 · answer #3 · answered by kahahius 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As George Herbert Mead has said: "identity is constructed through an understanding of the projection of the self to others". What he meant, I think, is that we are what we think other people's opinion of us is. When you are not surrounded by people and, thus, do not need to play your social role (and we do play roles, even with the closest people, the role of mother, daughter, wife), can you answer a question: "Who are you? What you are like?" The answer is no - there is a lot of "me" or none of "me" at all...
2007-02-08 12:54:02 · answer #4 · answered by Lady 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh my gosh yes! Lets see, I've been labelled,
selfish,
a doormat,
unreliable,
lazy,
sweet,
a deep thinker,
responsible,
irresponsible,
nurturing,
needy,
good listener,
too talkative.
and the list goes on.....I guess we must be all those things, just some people see certain traits within us more than others do.
2007-02-08 15:03:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many people are quite judgmental, as in their meanness they are always on the lookout for what is wrong with the other person, and will spot it (even if it is imaginary in their own head) and spread the dirt on you to everyone they can|
That is based on the vice of *pride,* as many people build themselves up by tearing others down|
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2007-02-08 01:39:20 · answer #6 · answered by Catholic Philosopher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The way people look and perceive you depends on what you project to them. Don't be misled by their line of thinking, or grandiose your self as being very versatile. As they say, the other people around us are just mirrors were we can reflect our own selves. If one thinks you are sweet, that is because you projected a sweet image of you to him or her; if another person say that you are dumb and lazy, it is because you showed him that image of yours - your dumb and lazy side. What you project is what comes back to you.
2007-02-08 01:57:24 · answer #7 · answered by Arcana I 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but I have multiple personalities and "act differently" around different people. Perhaps you are doing the same!
2007-02-10 18:35:13 · answer #8 · answered by Trish 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it is!
some say im a genius
others say im an idiot
others say i have no life
others say im wonderful
some say im strange
others say im just average
2007-02-08 02:06:40 · answer #9 · answered by Weirdo!!! pie man 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you must have all these traits remember your not a one celled being
2007-02-08 09:41:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋