45 Perfect Examples Of Overconfident People Failing To Fact Check (New Pics)

Those who are insecure often project their supposed superiority in a variety of ways. One of the most popular ones is pointing out others' mistakes. However, sometimes the fact-checkers rely too much on their emotions and too little on the truth.

There’s a Facebook group called ‘People Incorrectly Correcting Other People’ and it’s full of humorous reminders that you need to be absolutely certain of what you’re about to say when you’re getting ready to bask someone, or else you’re going to make a fool of yourself.

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In that case, they have a choice between being competitive or cooperative.

“Cooperative resolution means that people are seeking some kind of middle ground,“explainsArt Markman, Ph.D., and Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin. “Competitive resolution means that people are trying to convince the other person to change their belief.”

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Many factors lead people to take a cooperative or competitive stance when dealing with a disagreement. For instance, the personality characteristic of openness reflects how willing we are to consider new ideas, and people high in openness are more likely to be cooperative than those who are low in openness.The characteristic of agreeableness reflects how much people want to get along with others — agreeable people are also more likely to seek a compromise than disagreeable people.

The characteristic of agreeableness reflects how much people want to get along with others — agreeable people are also more likely to seek a compromise than disagreeable people.

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Turns out, people’s certainty about their beliefs can be broken down into two components: clarity and correctness. Clarity determines if we are sure about what we believe. Each of us has some beliefs that we hold deeply and others to which we are not as firmly attached. Correctness focuses on whether we think our belief is ‘correct’ in some broader cultural context or not.

The authors suggested that the more strongly people believe their attitude is correct, the more competitive they will be in their discussions with others. (Interestingly, they did not assume that clarity would be as strongly related to competitiveness.)

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“Being certain of your attitude can affect whether you try to convince other people that you are right,” Markman writes. “In particular, the more strongly you believe that your attitude is the right one, the more you will focus on convincing others.““That also means that if you find yourself in conflict with others on a regular basis, you might want to evaluate whether you generally assume that your attitudes are the correct ones.”

“That also means that if you find yourself in conflict with others on a regular basis, you might want to evaluate whether you generally assume that your attitudes are the correct ones.”

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Manners mentor Maralee McKee finds it sad that sometimes, when people speak, their words seem more spit out than thought out.“Stories abound, and it has happened to me, about being called out in person in front of family members, coworkers, friends, and anybody and everybody else for minor things, from incorrectly quoting a movie line, to saying something happened on a Tuesday when it occurred on a Wednesday, to getting the name wrong of the restaurant an incident occurred in while telling a great story,” shesays.

Manners mentor Maralee McKee finds it sad that sometimes, when people speak, their words seem more spit out than thought out.

“Stories abound, and it has happened to me, about being called out in person in front of family members, coworkers, friends, and anybody and everybody else for minor things, from incorrectly quoting a movie line, to saying something happened on a Tuesday when it occurred on a Wednesday, to getting the name wrong of the restaurant an incident occurred in while telling a great story,” shesays.

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According to McKee, even if the ‘correctors,’ ‘nit-pickers,’ and ‘accusers’ are right, correcting others over small things is rarely called for, it seldom wins anyone friends, and on the rare occasion when it is called for, it’s tricky to accomplish politely.For more people incorrectly correcting other people, fire up our older publications on the Facebook group, called50 People That Had More Courage Than Brains To Go Incorrectly Correcting Someoneand45 Painfully Cringe Moments When People Thought They Knew Better, But Embarrassed Themselves Instead.

For more people incorrectly correcting other people, fire up our older publications on the Facebook group, called50 People That Had More Courage Than Brains To Go Incorrectly Correcting Someoneand45 Painfully Cringe Moments When People Thought They Knew Better, But Embarrassed Themselves Instead.

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