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kellinatorI wonder what it is about us that makes us have instant, visceral reactions to people we don't know.
(Context: A law alum just came in looking for my boss and complaining about a fine. Something about her put me off immediately. It was probably the bitching about the fine, but I digress.)
Sometimes back when I was working at Crystal Blue I'd be waiting on someone and I'd just get really creeped out and uncomfortable. Of course, this being Crystal Blue, I could just mutter something about bad energy and one of my co-workers would rescue me.
But what is it that sometimes gives us an instant bad reaction to a person we know not at all? Is it just giving in to our base prejudices, like mine against whiny lawyers? Or are we maybe, just maybe, picking up on something? What's the saying? Ah, here it is:
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." ~Joyce Brothers
Ah Google, how I heart thee.
(Context: A law alum just came in looking for my boss and complaining about a fine. Something about her put me off immediately. It was probably the bitching about the fine, but I digress.)
Sometimes back when I was working at Crystal Blue I'd be waiting on someone and I'd just get really creeped out and uncomfortable. Of course, this being Crystal Blue, I could just mutter something about bad energy and one of my co-workers would rescue me.
But what is it that sometimes gives us an instant bad reaction to a person we know not at all? Is it just giving in to our base prejudices, like mine against whiny lawyers? Or are we maybe, just maybe, picking up on something? What's the saying? Ah, here it is:
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." ~Joyce Brothers
Ah Google, how I heart thee.
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Date: 2004-09-24 12:19 pm (UTC)Far more inexplicable is when you just don't like someone from looking at them. Which happens, believe me. Maybe they share a facial (or any) feature with someone you disliked with good cause.
I don't trust my hunches. They're mostly worthless (at least mine are). We just think our hunches deliver the goods because we remember the times when our hunches were right ("I KNEW he was a bad person!") and tend to forget the many, many, many more times our hunches were wrong.