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#608 - Paul Bloom - How Does The Human Mind Work?

Modern Wisdom

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The Tribal Predisposition to Racism

The race of the person that is the viewer has basically no impact on that ability to see the people. It's very much kind of like training data, right? And in fact, for babies themselves, one of the sort of creepy findings, I don't know, is that white babies tend to look at white people, black babies, then to look at black people. But it's not their own race. It's just you get a familiarity preference. You like to look at what you've seen before.

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