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Judgement vs Evaluation

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Looking at a situation to identify which are the advantages rather than the disadvantages, or looking at the qualities and flaws of a person is a natural action that also animals do . It is an archaic mechanism aimed to recognize dangerous situations or members of a group in order to protect the species (Abdai J., Miklòsi A, 2016) . The quality of this natural analysis, however, is not always high. Indeed, studies on humans' criteria to evaluate situations or persons, pointed out that some of them of humans provoke a biased perception ( Chavez , Heatherton , Wagner, 2017) .  The criteria used to analyze a situation can be objective or personal (Turchi). The objective criteria relate to something that is observable and shearable by everyone, whereas the personal criteria are criteria formed from memories or believe that are proper of just one person (Turchi). It had been proved that when a person deals with situations close to their personal experience, she tends to report a di...