We commonly believe that we understand others better than they understand us.
The rationale for this stems from our external, objective viewpoint and the
assumption that the other person has a significant
blind-self,
while our own blind-self is small.
There is also asymmetry in the reverse situation -- we believe we understand
ourselves better than others understand us and may feel insulted if they try to
show they understand us more than we do.
The same effect happens for groups, where the in-group believes they
understand out-groups better than out-groups understand them.
Overall, this is a position where we generally assume we know more than
others, perhaps because we know more about what we know.
TJ
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