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The Overblown Implications Effect is the title of a paper by some woke hustlers (i.e. professors) out of Wharton (UPenn) and Cal-Berkeley. Pretty vetted names. Cool.
The standard concept is that, well, let’s say you make a batch of cookies. You burn them horribly. As the person who made the cookies and burned them (“the actor”), you assume that anyone in the room/kitchen now thinks you are universally a bad cook. Like, because you burned these cookies, you cannot make an omelette or even a piece of toast. You done, boy. (Girl.)
Whole thing is detailed in this summary article.
Obviously this is colliding contextually with “first impressions,” which I’ve surprisingly only blogged about once really. (OK, maybe twice.)
There would seem to be many work implications here, yes?
Yes. Even more in the modern coronavirus moment.
Let’s say we’re in a normal business time, i.e. not now. You give a presentation at work. The presentation sucks and bombs. People are legit sleeping through it. Well, you — as the actor — may now assume everyone thinks you are a horrible employee, very dumb, and bad at presentations. Some people may think that, sure. But most won’t, and in reality, most people have three more meetings and presentations to…
