During the next two class periods, I got to know her more by working with her in our class group and I'm really happy I did because I found that she was really nice person. I also discovered that the reason she was so harsh on the male student in our class was because he had made a negative comment about women in one of her other classes and she had taken it to heart. Now I think it's kind of funny that the same reason I had bad feelings towards her was similar to why she had bad feelings towards our classmate. Looking back, I based his entire personality on a few class periods where he never did anything directly towards me, and never tried to understand the real reasons why he acted the way he did. I experienced ego depletion where I was confronted with a counter-attitudinal message that made me change my attitude towards it (Baron & Branscombre,
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