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that make a difference in their real-world behavior.
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A way to put this all together is in Trish Devine's automaticity theory,
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which goes something like this. The idea is that everybody holds stereotypes.
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These are automatically activated when we come into contact with individuals.
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In order to not act in a stereotyped fashion,
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we have to consciously push them down, we have to consciously override them,
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and that's possible, but it takes work.
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It takes work both at the individual level and it takes work at the group level.
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Any questions or thoughts about this? Yes.
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It's a good question. These results are surprising and disturbing
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and I said there is work to be done at an individual and group level
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and this young man challenged me to be more explicit about that.