Babies learn the difference between “us” and “them” fairly early in life.
Social categorization (the process of dividing the world into groups based on features such as gender, race and nationality) can be a useful strategy when you’re new to the world and trying to process a flood of information with your developing brain, according to UCSB developmental, evolutionary and social psychologist Zoe Liberman.
The act of creating groups for instance, all the objects that can be categorized as some type of chair serves as an efficient learning tool for minds still learning to grasp the world around them.
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Babies learn the difference between us and them fairly early in life. Social categorization the process of dividing the world into groups based on features such as gender, race and nationality can be a useful strategy when you re new to the world and trying to process a flood of information with your developing brain, according to UC Santa Barbara developmental, evolutionary and social psychologist Zoe Liberman.
The act of creating groups for instance, all the objects that can be categorized as some type of chair serves as an efficient learning tool for minds still learning to grasp the world around them. But what starts out as a useful survival behavior in our early lives could become a problem when it is applied to people: The tendency to form groups and to like people who are more familiar can lead to stereotyping, bias and racism.