No matter how nonjudgmental we claim to be, when we meet someone for the first time, we inadvertently make a mental impression of them based on just visual cues. Do they look rich? What’s wrong with their fashion sense? Are those scars criminal in nature?
While you’re busy doing that, though, the brain would have already had made a subconscious profile of the person, and a much more accurate one, too.Research shows that the brain is scarily fast at making up judgements about other people, taking about 0.1 seconds for the whole process.
More importantly, its judgements turn out to be right, whether it’s about their sexuality, competence at the workplace, or political affiliation. It’s when you start to think on your own and override your brain’s judgements that they turn into stereotypes that are often inaccurate. The cues that the brain notes are also impossible to fake.
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