> Your personality (how others view it) is simplified to its most defining traits
Instead, the more people know you, the more they perceive your other traits and the more complex opinion of you they have.
> then that perception is gradually reinforced by how people treat you
There is definitely such a thing as strong influence of various people on each other. But, it does not do flanders-like simplification to single trait nor does it persistently exaggerate that single trait all that much.
Still no. And in case of those people, I dont even get to observe how others treat them, so the other effect from parent comment does not apply either.
> Your personality (how others view it) is simplified to its most defining traits
Instead, the more people know you, the more they perceive your other traits and the more complex opinion of you they have.
> then that perception is gradually reinforced by how people treat you
There is definitely such a thing as strong influence of various people on each other. But, it does not do flanders-like simplification to single trait nor does it persistently exaggerate that single trait all that much.