What you say about others also speaks about yourself. Research coordinated by Wake Forest University (USA) has shown that seeing others favorably is an indicator that you can consider yourself happy, enthusiastic, noble and emotionally stable . However, if you are one of those who tend to criticize and judge those around you with a negative bias, it is likely that you live in disgust . "A positive perception of the rest of the people indicates satisfaction with our own life," suggests Dustin Wood, a psychologist and co-author of the study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology . On the contrary, those who perceive negatively the rest of the people with whom they interact are usually narcissistic, unhappy, prone to depression, neurotic, antisocial and affected by other personality disorders.
From the results, the researchers suggest that when we make an individual value his co-workers or his acquaintances, we obtain abundant information not only from the person evaluated, but also (and above all) from the evaluator and his emotional situation.
