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The article is discussed in the context of first impressions and how cultural messages can shape our judgments of others and reinforce stereotypes.
I remember reading an article that made me think like, oh, I'm so glad there is this science. This is a paper by Richard Cook, Adam Eggleston and Harriet Over. And it's called the cultural learning ac...
— Episode: 121. How Good Are Your Snap Judgments?
Episode: 121. How Good Are Your Snap Judgments?
The article is discussed in the context of first impressions and how cultural messages can shape our judgments of others and reinforce stereotypes.
I remember reading an article that made me think like, oh, I'm so glad there is this science. This is a paper by Richard Cook, Adam Eggleston and Harriet Over. And it's called the cultural learning account of first impressions.
Their thesis is that when you meet somebody that you don't know, very quickly, you come to first impressions. Just like we said, their explanation for this is that we have these associations, these correlations of sort of like, oh, when I see people who are this, I often find that they are that.