People judge others based on behavior they themselves have constrained

Evidence

Given that setup, it is hard to imagine that one could learn anything meaningful about another person. On average, though, par­ ticipants who heard mostly conservative responses from the interviewee rated him or her as being conservative, and those who heard mostly liberal responses concluded that he or she must be liberal. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 358

Categorization

• XREF: This is the perceiver-induced constraint effect from Gilbert and Jones (1986), a classic outcome of the correspondence bias — connects to earlier chapter claim about over-attributing others’ behavior to personality. — connects to: Nazi guards could sincerely punish victims for conditions the guards themselves created — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 363; Perpetrators can overlook their own role in degrading victims even when they caused it — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 362; People over-attribute others’ behavior to personality and underweight situational constraints — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 356 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Moral dispositions resist contrary incentives yet people overestimate their behavioral role #qualifies (0.75) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 216