Tag Archives: psychology

One isn’t Many and Many isn’t All

One of the argu­ments that I hear for why peo­ple express an –ism belief (racism, sex­ism, ageism, etc), is that they had this expe­ri­ence with this one per­son and you know that must be how every­one of that par­tic­u­lar group is. I love this kind of rea­son­ing it’s so illog­i­cal it’s almost funny and yet …

January 7, 2009 – 10:34 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Philosophy, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

The Rise of the Generalist

Recently Steve Rubel posted about What’s the Future Like for a “Renais­sance Man” in a Con­nected World?. In this post he dis­cuses how even though we would think that with the inter­net an indi­vid­ual could have broad knowl­edge about the world, instead peo­ple spe­cial­ize in their par­tic­u­lar area of exper­tise. He then says that he …

May 13, 2008 – 11:42 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in General News, Random, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Stereotypes: Will they ever go away?

An idea that has been dis­cussed on and off again in my his­tory class (His­tory of Women in Amer­ica) is what would hap­pen if some how every liv­ing per­son on the face of the earth did not have any stereo­types about any other per­son. No racial, no reli­gious, no gen­der and sex­ual, no stereo­types of …

September 19, 2006 – 1:13 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)