@PsychRabble How the media presented that study...
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/07/intelligent-people-are-more-likely-to-stereotype/535158/ …
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The Atlantic article implicitly equates stereotypes and prejudice. The Atlantic is usually excellent, but this is deeply confused and wrong.
Sometimes, bias results in higher accuracy in stereotype judgments. Can also depend on the metrics used for accuracy. Topic is quite tricky.
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1/I'd be interested in learning about the mental processes which lead to the creation of 'bias' and generalization to begin with. If there is a "biased estimator," I presume there's been some sort of sampling and learning process which has led to it. This is uncontroversial:
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2/nobody is surprised when someone who has recently been raped at knifepoint by a man is jump around men with knives, even though the "objective" probability of such attacks when men have knives (say, in the kitchen) is quite low. In short, while the broader social stuff is
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3/fascinating, I'd (naively) think the first step in a psych research program would be to experimentally query the metes and bounds of 'stereotype' learning & generalization, with & without affective loading. Lee, are there any reviews or what have you to this effect?
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Derek, you can go to my Rutgers website, a ton of stuff is available there: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jussim/papers.html … But most of that stuff works hard to separate out (as much as possible) the belief component from the evaluative/affective component.
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Thanks much. I mean I guess you could get panic patients and adjust the oxygen in the room as you probe them w/ different "new categories" of "entities" to see if they make hastier generalizations under panic; anyhow I'll review and get back to you.
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