Dissociation\u2013the state in which a person possesses conflicting attitudes, one reflective, the other automatic\u2013is a hard concept for me to wrap my head around. Similar to the mindbugs from the last reading, it is hard to understand that my brain makes decisions and judgements that I do not have control over. However, the mystery behind dissociation makes it all the more important to be aware of. People do not have to endorse racist or sexist ideas to possess them. It is a problem that society must address. Some implicit biases are extremely harmful and potentially deadly, like the black=harmful and the American=white stereotypes that the author talks about.<\/p>\n
The Managing to Clear the Air<\/em> reading delves into specific ways that stereotypes, implicit or explicit, are damaging. If a person feels like they are negatively stereotyped, they are more likely to perform worse or underperform. I learned about this in my 102 class as well; it\u2019s called stereotype threat. There are several other aspects of stereotype effects that are startling. Take, for example, reactant response. It is upsetting to think about a person changing themselves to fit in, then being ostracized in other parts of their life because of it. It is the definition of a lose-lose situation. It is so important to learn about these threats and try to find ways to combat them. I expect that they will be obstacles for me in the future, so I want to be as prepared and aware as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dissociation\u2013the state in which a person possesses conflicting attitudes, one reflective, the other automatic\u2013is a hard concept for me to wrap my head around. Similar to the mindbugs from the last reading, it is hard to understand that my brain makes decisions and judgements that I do not have control over. However, the mystery behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4486,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}