BIAS By Harry Petsanis and Donna McCance Bias is defined as people having feelings and opinions, usually preconceived, against people or things, sometimes unfairly, although not always. People immediately and automatically make up their minds and take positions on things without giving any thought. This is called “implicit bias” and it often occurs unintentionally because people aren’t even aware that they are doing it. It affects our choices, decisions, judgments, and acti

Lying By Harry Petsanis and Donna McCance When you lie, you make a statement that is untrue to deceive others from knowing the truth. You give misleading and false information. Everyone lies, just like everyone has emotions. We lie to ourselves, and we lie to others. We exaggerate, expand, leave out details, inflate, and tell “little white lies.” We say we don’t want others to lie to us, while at the same time, we lie to them. People get angry when other people don’t turn

Rejection By Harry Petsanis and Donna McCance Rejection is a negative feeling we get when we have not been given approval or acceptance of ourselves or something we want. Rejection is an emotion. It isn’t something that people do to us, it’s the feeling we get when people are being honest with us. It’s human nature to want to get what we want, and we become disappointed when we don’t get it. The problem is when people don’t get what they want, they shift the blame onto the