The beautiful country of Kazahrus

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Heavy-handed social agenda aesops in muh popular premium TV shows?

NOO!!

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Why would I be offended by a fictional country? They made up a country so they could have an evil country without explicitly calling a country evil.

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poor_hobbit wrote:

My point is, the degrading "manipulative brainwash" means degrading intellectual level of the viewers. For me, the conclusion is that the people in general are LESS educated and LESS smart as they were say 30 years ago.

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The third approach to stereotypes – and the one we follow – is the “social cognition approach”, rooted in social psychology (Schneider 2004). This approach gained ground in the 1980’s and views social stereotypes as special cases of cognitive schemas or theories (Schneider, Hastorf, and Ellsworth 1979). These theories are intuitive generalizations that individuals routinely use in their everyday life, and entail savings on cognitive resources. Hilton and Hippel (1996) define stereotypes as “mental representations of real differences between groups [. . . ] allowing easier and more efficient processing of information. Stereotypes are selective, however, in that they are localized around group features that are the most
distinctive, that provide the greatest differentiation between groups, and that show the least within-group variation.” A related “kernel-of-truth hypothesis” holds that stereotypes are based on some empirical reality; as such, they are useful, but may entail exaggerations (Judd and Park 1993).
We show that this approach to stereotypes is intimately related to another idea from psychology: the use of heuristics in probability judgments (Kahneman and Tversky 1972). Just as heuristics simplify the assessment of complex probabilistic hypotheses, they also simplify
the representation of heterogeneous groups, sometimes causing errors in judgment...

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We all make snap judgments about people even if we haven’t met them. This is called stereotyping, and depending on the context, our stereotypes can either be good or bad. A new study finds that people with higher cognitive abilities are more likely to learn and apply social stereotypes. However, they also have the ability to more easily unlearn them when presented with new information.

The researchers say that these individuals are more adept at picking up subtle patterns that aren’t obvious to the average person. However, their stereotyping associations can be challenged when new patterns arise.

“Superior cognitive abilities are often associated with positive outcomes, such as academic achievement and social mobility,” said the study’s lead author David Lick, a postdoctoral researcher in New York University’s Department of Psychology. “However, our work shows that some cognitive abilities can have negative consequences—specifically, that people who are adept at detecting patterns are especially quick to learn and apply social stereotypes.”

...However, those with superior pattern detection were found to more easily update their stereotypes based on new knowledge, making them particularly susceptible to changing their bias.

“Finding that higher pattern detection ability puts people at greater risk to detect and apply stereotypes, but also to reverse them, implicates this ability as a cognitive mechanism underlying stereotyping. Our findings may help pave the way for future research that leverages pattern detection or other cognitive abilities for reducing social biases,”

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鬼殺し wrote:

... and I might go back and finish The Americans just because I liked the twist of it being about a normal family.