ext_302925 ([identity profile] bigsockgrrl.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] mellowtigger 2008-04-26 06:44 pm (UTC)

Yes, a gauntlet could work. I often wear fingerless gloves. I don't know why those bother me less... perhaps it's because the pressure is spread over a larger surface area.

It's a great idea. It could work well for more than just aspies, I think. It would be a great antidote to problems created by fundamental attribution error.*


*From Wikipedia: "In attribution theory, the fundamental attribution error (also known as correspondence bias or overattribution effect) is the tendency for people to over-emphasize dispositional, or personality-based, explanations for behaviors observed in others while under-emphasizing situational explanations. In other words, people have an unjustified tendency to assume that a person's actions depend on what "kind" of person that person is rather than on the social and environmental forces influencing the person. Overattribution is less likely, perhaps even inverted, when people explain their own behavior; this discrepancy is called the actor-observer bias."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error

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