Exactly.  What people seem to ignore is that getting along takes work, takes giving people the benefit of the doubt, and it takes leaving your ego at the door.  Otherwise you are difficult to be around.  When people complain that they are &quot;<i>constantly</i> belittled&quot; in cooperative environments, as stated in the article, with emphasis on <i>constantly</i>, that signals that their negative interpretation is the common factor in all these normal interactions with random people.