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Professor Igor Grossmann from the University of Waterloo asserts that, when faced with a personal dilemma, such as the infidelity of a spouse, a person talks more wisely, if it is in the capacity of observer.

Igor Grossman, and Professor Ethan Kross from the University of Michigan were asked to assess participants ' attitude to personal conflict from first and third person. Experiments have shown that we think wiser, when I think about other people's problems than our own. The reason for this discrepancy is that we distanciruemsa. "These results first demonstrated a new type of bias within ourselves when it comes to wise reasoning about the dilemma of interpersonal relationships," said Grossman. "We call it the displacement of the Paradox of Solomon, the king who was known for his wisdom, but which was not able personal decisions".

The researchers compared the survey results of young and older people. Contrary to the adage that with age comes wisdom, adults were not more likely to reason wisely about their personal dilemma than their younger colleagues.

"We first demonstrated that there is a simple way to eliminate this bias in reasoning by talking of himself in the third person and using our name when reflecting relations in the conflict," said Professor Grossman. "When we use such a strategy, we tend to think more wisely about your problem".

Source: nauka24news.ru/