
96 - Jon Freeman: Reading Faces
Stanford Psychology Podcast
The Implicit, Explicit Divide in Categorization
The cognitive account of categorization is that it doesn't really matter if we're correct. We just want to feel like we understand other people, he says. Is that too cynical of a take? Look, I think you're getting at a question of the almost kind of post hoc, how do we feel about the inferences that we're arriving at?" He adds: "From my perspective, all of this is happening spontaneously"
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