One’s own current bodily state biases inferences about others’ needs

Evidence

In the judgment task, the perceivers were told about a group of hikers who lost their way and were short on drinking water. Due to their previous physical exertion, these perceivers were particularly likely to assume that the hikers would be thirsty (as opposed to hungry). In other words, our own experiences can bias our efforts to understand another person’s world. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 378

Categorization

• XREF: Grounds the mechanism for how one’s own group-conditioned experiences (not just bodily states) get projected onto outgroup members, extending to the prejudice thread.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 378