"A deeper diagnosis resembles an office version of actor–observer bias – We see the complex machinery inside our own profession, but only the automatable surface of everyone else’s."
The APA defines the actor–observer effect as an asymmetry in how people explain their own behavior compared with the behavior of others. The manuscript explicitly proposes an office analogy rather than identifying an established psychological subtype, applying the difference in perspective to how professionals interpret their own work and the work of others.
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