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Level 10 - Vehement
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Re: Age, please?
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Originally Posted by Aboulia
Illusory? They have been demonstrated in controlled testing.
Stereotype Threat itself is a determinant of behavior and in the particular test scenario, Asian Women performed above or below average as a result of different stereotype primers. Observer Expectancy effect/Pygmallion effect/Rosenthal effect is pretty solid science. So is Pavlovian Conditioning, Hebb's Law and the neuroscientific equivelent Long-Term Potentiation.
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Eh I think we're largely in agreement and might be talking past each other. My last line was admittedly an over-zealous use of 'illusory' to emphasize that the dichotomy of genes or memes might be a false one. I had to look up Rosenthal, but from my understanding of stereotype threat and observer-expectation bias I don't think they refute a gene-centered view of sexual behavior. It's not entirely clear to me that such behavior is meme-driven. That memes can spread (by whatever means) is tempting and probably true, but their influence over behavior still must reduce to the genetic policies encoded in our brain.
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