Misunderstanding
“I tried explaining everything all over again, but I felt defeated and lost all hope as I had exceeded the time limit, and the judges shook their heads disapprovingly and looked disappointed, alas, I couldn’t finish my speech and couldn’t put forth my point due to a few mispronounced words.” I guess, everyone can agree that they have been misunderstood by others, and have misunderstood others’ statements as well at least once in their lives, but the important point here is that nobody is perfect. The schema that one creates after receiving a piece of information can change or cloud their perception of logic, which can be the consequence of various cognitive, perceptual, and motivational biases that systematically distort human judgment and inference which in turn creates misunderstandings, and can lead to intrapersonal and interpersonal conflicts. Attention bias at the end of the receiver can influence the misunderstanding as people may end up interpretation of just part of what...