Books are better, but these will do:
The Deferential Wife (described in Section 1) who lives in a world in which women
are routinely denied educational opportunities and access tothe best jobs, and so become economically dependent on men, is more likely to desire to be servile to her husband and children. A female student who lives in a patriarchal culture that teaches women to look to men for protection, security, and strength rather than to cultivate these traits in themselves, is more likely to want to date males in power, such as her professor, because she sees them as exhibiting these traits.
Feminist Moral Psychology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
The ridicule and devaluation of women’s intuition as unreliable, unscientific, and illogical is used to invalidate and detour perception away from the active oppression of women by a dominant patriarchal society. This propaganda can become so effective that some
women come to believe that men have a special skill or ability that allows them to succeed in the world that these women themselves do not possess, while, paradoxically, they cater to the needs and foibles of men at home through this same invalidated intu- ition (Miller, 1986).
http://www.dhss.delaware.gov/dsamh/files/perception1192.pdf
To aid in reducing the world into a more manageable environment, we deploy heuristics, which are the neat well-established categories that provide an abbreviated version of lengthier thinking processes. In clinical experiments, patients experiencing stress habitually increase their reliance on heuristics, stereotyping, and dualistic evaluative thinking (friend vs. foe, safe vs. dangerous dichotomies).
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pervert one's sense of reality. Thus, the old adage, "Seeing is believing" is better rephrased as, "Believing is seeing," because perceptions are always subjected to our emotional filtering systems, which endow us with the basis for interpreting and often misinterpreting environmental and social events. Emotional filters are grounded in:
What we have been taught explicitly or implicitly.
Conditioned beliefs that become "hard-wired" in the brain by experiences and thoughts, forming semi-permanent neural circuits inside the brain.
Expectations based on schemas and our awareness of "if-then" relationships.
Evolutionary and genetic directions that assist us in identifying potential threats, which are often, unfortunately, defined as "those who look different from me and my group."
Social Conditioning
Contrary to other species in which instincts dictate habitat, food choices, mating preferences and practices, social stratifications, and clear identities for one's designated "enemies" — in human beings, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are shaped by human-made meaning systems that must be taught, learned, and mastered. Classical conditioning is the form of learning that takes place when two stimuli are paired with one another. For example, when a lab rat sees a light go on, which is also followed by a mild electrical shock, the rat has "learned" via classical conditioning methods.
In establishing human prejudices, similar pairings of conditions occur, which may be real, imagined, insinuated, implied, or deliberately taught. Social conditioning has merged with neurobiologically based survival instincts to produce the majority of our more complex contemporary prejudices. The social and cognitive developmental literature has shown that children demonstrate clear ethnic and racial awareness at around three or four years of age. Differences are never the problem to children. It is the teaching of prejudicial attributions and misattributions to differences that foster eventual conflicts.
Neuropsychology and Prejudice