{
  "id": 7335566,
  "title": "Are we really bad at reading people? Politeness may skew the evidence",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/are-we-really-bad-at-reading-people-politeness-may-skew-the-evidence",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-14T14:00:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-bad-people-politeness-skew-evidence.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A new ESMT Berlin study suggests that many widely held assumptions about social misjudgments may stem from flawed study designs. Previous research compared predictions about others' reactions with their self-reports, even though the two types of answers are subject to different social pressures. Across 13 experiments, the researchers showed that these pressures can create or even reverse apparent…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}