Noticing Judgments
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    • Day 3 and Day 4: Body Size
    • Day 5 and Day 6: Skin Color and Ethnicity
    • Day 7 and Day 8: What Someone Says or Does
    • Day 9 and Day 10: Positive Judgments
    • Day 11 and Day 12: Media
    • Day 13 and Day 14: Refraining
    • Day 15 and Day 16: Lashon Hara
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Day 9 and Day 10

    One reason you might make judgments is if you are unhappy with yourself, and so you make yourself feel better by finding the "faults" in others. This link confirms through research that happy people make more positive judgments, and sad people make more negative judgments.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.2420200506/abstract

Positive Judgments

Notice when you make positive judgments about people, such as, "I like her shirt". Although these judgments are positive, we shouldn't let them influence our choices until we know more about the inside of the person, not just the outside. These can be better then negative judgments, yet they can still be untrue. They can help us unconsciously make decisions that we don't want to make.

http://www.allinspiration.com/Life/Special%20Sections/Happiness/make_positive_judgments.html

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