Stereotypes as Energy-Saving Devices

KristinK — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:51:09 +0000

After reading the article Stereotypes as Energy-Saving Devices: A Peek Inside the Cognitive Toolbox, I have thought a lot about how stereotypes are formed. According to the article we stereotype automatically without being conscious of what we are doing. It makes sense that we put people into certain schema’s, we do it with everything else however it is much more problematic to stereotype or put people into a schema than it is for us to ...

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Stereotypes as Energy-Saving Devices