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Shared Understanding: How to Understand Someone’s Goals Without Agreeing To Them

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. ― C.G. Jung According to New York psychology professors Gabriele Oettingen and Peter Gollwitzer, goal projection is “the assumption that other persons share goals that we are currently pursuing.” This is a fairly common belief, but psychologists don’t seem to have…