How to Analyze People on Sight

Wonderful

Although there is some good information I picked up from reading this (which gets hampered because of a lack of organizing the information into different sections) , a lot of it can be broken into, “they look a certain way, they act a certain way,” “here’s this scenario about a type which applies for the entire type,” “people don’t change and are always the same by adulthood,” and, “well if you don’t believe me, then just look for yourself.” It acknowledges the fact that it doesn’t take into account that a person isn’t always going to be an extreme example that it brings up in the book, and for these examples to work the person has to be of sound body mind and soul making the goal of the book (analyzing people) counter intuitive. You could literally go outside and have a conversation with any number of people that look the same, but don’t act the same. This communicates and shows the issue of behaviorism as a study, where it says past events don’t effect how a person behaves, and only takes into account a persons outward behavior. I will say, yes behavioralism is a rooster, but it’s not the whole hen house. Especially in today’s society, where we know that there are a million different factors in how a person acts, which the book says people are incapable of change and they’re behaviors will stay the same. Overall, where it does provide some insight on figuring out what kind of person an individual is going to be, it makes a lot of claims and fails to back them up apart from the authors personal experience (which is important to some extent, but not in an Academic piece as this book claims to be). The study of psychology has come far from when this book was published, and your better off reading a more recent study or book on the same topic.

Very informing