"Two broad, systemic simplifications of the world have an outsize role in sparking disagreements: **we give the benefit of the doubt to people like us** (which also makes us more skeptical of people different from us), and **we assume that people like us are complicated and full of contradictions (and people not like us are simple and transparent in their motivations)."** (~[Location 1034](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B081J97HLQ&location=1034)~) *** **Tags** — [[quotes]], [[self-selection-bias]], [[in-group-out-group-bias]], [[type-one-thinking]] **Source** — [[202308170952 — B — Why Are We Yelling]]