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or makes you look manipulative or cheap,
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you'll distort it in your head so that it does make sense.
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I want to move now to how we think about self and other,
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how we think about ourselves relative to how we think about other people.
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And this brings us to the notion of attribution.
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So,an attribution is a claim about the cause of somebody's behavior and Heider--
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Now, there's all sorts of reasons for somebody's behavior.
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Suppose you insult me or suppose you're very kind to me.
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I could say you're a kind person or you're a rude person.
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I could say "This must be a great day for you"
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or "You must be a lot of-- under a lot of stress or you must want something."
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There's different sorts of attributions we could make to people