The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.

The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.

When we use stereotypes, we take in the gender, the age, the color of the skin of the person before us, and our minds respond with messages that say hostile, stupid, slow, weak. Those qualities aren't out there in the environment. They don't reflect reality.