The Overblown Implications Effect
If you burn a batch of cookies or mess up a work presentation, do people think you are a bad cook or dumb now forever?
The Overblown Implications Effect is the title of a paper by some woke hustlers (i.e. professors) out of Wharton (UPenn) and Cal-Berkeley. Pretty vetted names. Cool.
The standard concept is that, well, let's say you make a batch of cookies. You burn them horribly. As the person who made the cookies and burned them ("the actor"), you assume that anyone in…
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