Place a mirror before a dog. The dog barks at its own mirror image, thinking it is another dog !
But the Mirror Image Hypothesis is far deeper than that example.
A pschologist , during Cold War 1.0, went to Russia and found out that Russians think Americans are hemonistic, monopolistic, jealous et al. He went to US and found out the same thing – that Americans think Russians are hegemonistic, monopolistic and jealous !
The he framed his famous M I H/
What you think about your enemy is exactly what he thinks about you !
The dynamics of international conflict – also interpersonal conflict – is grounded in the Mirror Image Hypothesis !
