Being a student of human behavior has its hazards and advantages. One of the advantage is I can analyzed behavior with some degree of precision. After all people like me are trained to notice both verbal and non-verbal communication, overt and covert behavior, and make hypothesizes base on them. This grounding is especially emphasized this semester as I have to submit video tapes of myself administering psychological assessment. I did well on most areas such as accuracy in administering, scoring, statistical analysis, report writing accuracy, and attending behavior but I lost 2 marks for not picking out and recording some non-verbal cues.
Too much acuity can have its drawback. People like me can over-analyze situation and come to the wrong hypothesis or conclusion. I can also be overly sensitive -something my husband mention quite often. It doesn't matter how accurate or how off base I am, understanding too much can get in the way of social life. This is especially true when I demand authenticity and sincerity from my relations.
In the past few weeks different people came up to me and said that I looked so much like so and so who was a prominent figure in this particular community. This person also happened to be a non-blood relative of mine. I also know that she is not the most popular figure in certain quarter. In psychology there is a theory called transference (click here to read about transference). I wonder whether I will notice some transference.
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