When is a Difficult Person not a Difficult Person? Negotiating Across Worldviews One‐on‐One

Abstract

What is a worldview and how would we know one in ourselves or others? I define “worldviews” as the values, expectations, beliefs, and motivations that consciously or unconsciously affect behavior. Because it is hard to know exactly how worldviews affect our own behavior, let alone the behavior of others, I discuss here an imperfect proxy that is more accessible: the degree to which we think of another person as a “difficult person” or not.