I don’t know, the monster is 5x the dude’s size and has sharp teeth made for mawing and sharp claws made for shredding meat off of bones. His forward-facing eyes imply predatory instincts/behavior. A boy’s gotta eat, after all.
If that’s stereotyping, then call me a bigot 🤷 heuristics are a survival mechanism, you know…
To illustrate further, conservatives can act like nice people on the surface, but if they’re wearing the red hat then I know they support fascism. I’m not going to say “well actually I have no indication that he’s anything but harmless. He was nice to me, afterall!”
Yes but it’s still a visual queue from which we can make an inference. It still requires an intuition which connects a representation to its meaning.
Maybe it wasn’t the most suitable example for this context for the reason you point out, but the perceptive/cognitive phenomena at play are the same in both situations from the viewer’s perspective
But we have no indication to think the fence monster is anything but harmless. The only thing that would make people think its harmful is a stereotype
For the problems you described, we have more information, even if more abstract; you cant just assign ill intent on someone based on their appearance
I don’t know, the monster is 5x the dude’s size and has sharp teeth made for mawing and sharp claws made for shredding meat off of bones. His forward-facing eyes imply predatory instincts/behavior. A boy’s gotta eat, after all.
If that’s stereotyping, then call me a bigot 🤷 heuristics are a survival mechanism, you know…
To illustrate further, conservatives can act like nice people on the surface, but if they’re wearing the red hat then I know they support fascism. I’m not going to say “well actually I have no indication that he’s anything but harmless. He was nice to me, afterall!”
That is a choice, not something they are born with; a choice that is associated with fascism
Other than that, yeah, you are right
Yes but it’s still a visual queue from which we can make an inference. It still requires an intuition which connects a representation to its meaning.
Maybe it wasn’t the most suitable example for this context for the reason you point out, but the perceptive/cognitive phenomena at play are the same in both situations from the viewer’s perspective
It’s like the exam scene from men in black