![]() After all, if hardly anyone tells you how good your compliment made them feel, or that they were smiling all day about that joke you told them, how would you know you had any impact at all?Ĭurious about this phenomenon, fellow psychologist Erica Boothby and I thought up an experiment: What if we asked people before they engaged in an ordinary interaction with another person what they expected their impact on the other person to be, and then immediately asked the other person how much they were actually impacted? Would people underestimate the influence they have on others in these sorts of commonplace, everyday interactions?īecause we rarely get insight into our influence over others, we may chronically underestimate it. And because we rarely get insight into our influence over others, we may chronically underestimate it. In other words, we may get one email for every hundred students we’ve taught. Whether we affect others in big, life-changing ways (like EMTs or social workers) or in smaller, everyday ways (like good-humored baristas), we typically only gain insight into a very tiny sliver of our true impact. ![]() ![]() Most of us, however, don’t regularly get this sort of insight into how we influence others. ![]()
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