We judge books by the cover and minds by their appearance. These are obviously terrible habits - a hint of cleavage shouldn't make us care less about someone's feelings, nor should a different skin tone - but we mostly can't help it. Or consider a 2010 fMRI experiment that found that when men glance at "sexualized" women they exhibit reduced activation in parts of the brain typically associated with the attribution of mental states. For instance, when people glance at strangers who look "different" - perhaps they dress funny, or belong to a different ethic group - they endow these strangers with less agency, a fancy term for the ability to plan, act and exert self-control. But this intricate connection between mind theorizing and sensory perception can also prove problematic.
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