As developed by cognitive psychologists, perspective-taking theory makes four important claims that are critical to your ability to become interdisciplinary and function successfully in the contemporary world. Identify three of these.




Perspective taking reduces the human tendency to negatively stereotype
individuals and groups; Perspective taking helps to move us developmentally from a
clear understanding of the differences between disciplines and their perspectives to
recognizing distinguishing characteristics of disciplines: the kinds of questions they
ask and their rules of evidence; Perspective taking facilitates our ability to assemble
new sets of potential solutions to a given problem; Perspective taking heightens our
awareness that we are biased in the direction of our own knowledge whether it
comes from our life experience or prior academic training.

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