Here is a fun reason psychology is hard:
- making people more aware of stereotypes is usually REQUIRED on the way to intervene on them and reduce them
- but how we make people more aware of stereotypes can actually make them seem more common, and more socially shared, thereby making them stronger
Hardest science.
Cat Hicks
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