Misrepresentation Triad

The Misrepresentation Triad is a concept used to illustrate potential reasons why others are misrepresenting us. The diagram is used to help people avoid committing a Hostile Attribution Bias, as it is easy to assume people are doing so out of malice.



In the diagram, we see that misrepresentation could be caused by one of three things: ignorance, laziness, or malice (or some combination).