A Brief Summary of Social Role Valorization Human beings, by nature, are a judging and discerning species. Our minds leap to almost- instantaneous judgments about who people are, whether or not they are worthy, and then whether they are "part of "us” or "one of them”. The impact of these split-second – often unconscious - judgments are significant, strong and life defining. And they can occur just as easily to assume good things about a person who has done nothing to "deserve” it as to assume bad things about a person who has equally done nothing to deserve this judgment. No matter what you, yourself, may think about people