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I don't usually bother to analyze and explain people's behavior.
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Once I have figured out a single cause for a person's behavior I don't usually go any further.
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I believe it is important to analyze and understand our own thinking processes.
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I think a lot about the influence that I have on people's behavior.
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I have found that relationships between a person's attitudes, beliefs, and character traits are usually simple and straightforward.
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If I see people behaving in a really strange or unusual manner, I usually put it down to the fact that they are strange or unusual people and don't bother to explain it any further.
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I have thought a lot about the family background and personal history of people who are close to me in order to understand why they are the sort of people they are.
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I don't enjoy getting into discussions where the causes for people's behavior are being talked about.
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I have found that the causes for people's behavior are usually complex rather than simple.
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I am very interested in understanding how my own thinking works when I make judgments about people or attach causes to their behavior.
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I think very little about the different ways that people influence each other.
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To understand a person's personality/behavior I have found it is important to know how that person's attitudes, beliefs, and character traits fit together.
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When I try to explain other people's behavior I concentrate on the other person and don't worry too much about all the existing external factors that might be affecting them.
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I have often found that the basic cause for a person's behavior is located far back in time.
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I really enjoy analyzing the reasons or causes for people's behavior.
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I usually find that complicated explanations for people's behavior are confusing rather than helpful.
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I give little thought to how my thinking works in the process of understanding or explaining people's behavior.
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I think very little about the influence that other people have on my behavior.
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I have thought a lot about the way that different parts of my personality influence other parts (e.g., beliefs affecting attitudes or attitudes affecting character traits).
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I think a lot about the influence that society has on other people.
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When I analyze a person's behavior I often find the causes form a chain that goes back in time, sometimes for years.
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I am not really curious about human behavior.
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I prefer simple rather than complex explanations for people's behavior.
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When the reasons I give for my own behavior are different from someone else's, this often makes me think about the thinking processes that lead to my explanations.
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I believe that to understand a person you need to understand the people who that person has close contact with.
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I tend to take people's behavior at face value and not worry about the inner causes for their behavior (e.g., attitudes, beliefs, etc.).
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I think a lot about the influence that society has on my behavior and personality.
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I have thought very little about my own family background and personal history in order to understand why I am the sort of person I am.