‘Our involvement in social networks appears to be such an essential to our survival that we have a ‘social pain’ mechanism, which alerts us to the need to rethink our behavior, change our plans, just in order to re-engage with our fellow human beings.’ p. 128.
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Were you hoping for some input/our perspective or just as an FYI?

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Input & perspectives would be very welcome - but certainly not expected! I'm especially interested in stereotype learning, as this is central to so many aspects of anthropology. Also both stereotype threat & stereotype accuracy are widely misunderstood so would be good to discuss
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I could write an essay on this — on how the contrasting of exemplar vs prototype theories (two competing theories in category learning for humans) can help shed light on what might be going on with stereotypes in a general social setting and why levels of analysis matter.
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I could but I don't have the time at the moment.
Also I always think levels of analysis matter. They are the only way to understand a complex system (society, brains, etc.) and situating the discussion on a level or levels is paramount for scientific understanding/progress. -
I did some work on this long ago, but from an associative learning perspective. I'm sure you can find more updated literature.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17470218.2010.493615 …
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Thank you both! May i ask whether you favour either exemplar or prototype theory?
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I'm a modeller. I favour what can help us give understanding to a system.
But! I know what you're asking! Exemplar theory (models built based on it) tends to give a better account of the data in many categorisation tasks though. -
If I am forced to choose, I 'd to go with exemplars, but I rather favour a simple associative account.
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