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• Prejudices emerge from the disposition of the human mind to perceive and process information in categories. "Categories" is a nicer, more neutral word than "stereotypes," but it's the same thing. Cognitive psychologists consider stereotypes to be energy-saving devices that allow us to make efficient decisions on the basis of past experience; help us quickly process new information and retrieve memories; make sense of real differences between groups; and predict, often with considerable accuracy, how others will behave or how they think. We wisely rely on stereotypes and the quick information they give us to avoid danger, approach possible new friends, choose one school or job over another, or decide that that person across this crowded room will be the love of our lives. That's the upside.... (查看原文)

  ocean11 2赞 2019-01-31 21:20:34

• Brewer's little girl was already dividing the world, as everyone does, into us and them. Us is the most fundamental social category in the brain's organizing system, and it's hardwired. Even the collective pronouns us and them are powerful emotional signals. In one experiment, in which participants believed their verbal skills were being tested, nonsense syllables such as xeh, yof, laj, or wuh were randomly paired with either an in-group word (us, we, or ours), an out-group word (them, they, or theirs), or, for a control measure, another pronoun (such as he, hers, or yours). Everyone then had to rate the syllables on how pleasant or unpleasant they were. You might wonder why anyone would have an emotional feeling toward a nonsense word like yof or think wuh is cuter than laj. Yet participa... (查看原文)

  ocean11 2赞 2019-01-31 21:20:34

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