"WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A person's comments about others reflect more about themselves than about those they are speaking of, U.S. researchers suggest.
Dustin Wood, assistant professor of psychology at Wake Forest University, Peter Harms at the University of Nebraska and Simine Vazire of Washington University in St. Louis say a person's tendency to describe others in positive terms is an important indicator of the positivity of the person's own personality traits and their emotional stability.
"Your perceptions of others reveal so much about your own personality," Wood says in a statement. "Seeing others positively reveals our own positive traits.""
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