44 - Lasana Harris: Moving Beyond Stereotypes When Encountering Strangers
Stanford Psychology Podcast
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Adaptive Social Cognitive Theory and Multiple Probabilistic Attributions
We live in a society where the stereotype information is super, super important. And so instead of going with some other kind of individuating inferont something about their personality, we instead rely on the stereotype. So when you meet your mother, you don't rely in the stereotypes, because it's your mother's right. You go directly to that trade information about who she is as a human being. Can we spontaneously get inside the heads of strangers and pull out trade information that is not necessarily related to stereotype? Now there is evidence we can do this. There's a huge literature in social psychology, quarrel spontaneous trade inference literature, which demonstrates exactly this. What really matters in the era in
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