Across six studies, we found that people commonly exaggerate the presence of certain groups – including ethnic and sexual minorities – simply because they are perceived as ideologically threatening. Psychologists call this feeling – that groups hold different values and worldviews from the mainstream, thereby jeopardizing the status quo – “symbolic threat.”From an article on The Conversation on 06/09/2022 entitled "People overestimate groups they find threatening- when "sizing up others," bias creeps in.
"They're eating the cats! They're eating the dogs!" Donald Trump in presidential debate with Kamala Harris in 2024.
How crazy are your beliefs? Are you aware of them? Can you manage them realistically? Being self aware is one of the first skills of spiritual intelligence. Socrates said an unexamined life is not worth living, and the humorist said an unlived life is not worth examining.
