Faulty Extrapolation: When One Person Rewires How You See Everyone
Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation showed that twenty minutes of watching a baby greet a returning parent predicts how that child will read a stranger's face at four and a friend's ambiguity at eleven. The same mechanism runs in adults — and it can be captured. When someone in your life narrates every human being as cruel, selfish, and two-faced, your brain treats that stream as data. Over years, it quietly rewrites your default assumption about whether people are on your side. This episode unpacks the mechanism, the asymmetry that keeps it invisible, and what it takes to rebuild an open…
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