Why Some People Can Never Admit They Are Wrong
You’ve been in this conversation before.
Someone does something wrong. You call them on it.
With the thing they did right in front of both of you.
And somehow, within five minutes, you are the one apologizing.
You walked in holding the evidence. You walked out wondering if you were the problem.
You were not the problem. You were on the receiving end of a psychological mechanism that has been identified, named, and experimentally proven to work on the people watching it happen, not just the person it is aimed at.
What Freyd Found
In 1997, psychologist Jennifer Freyd at the University of Oregon…
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