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TIL that a class at the University of Minnesota managed to condition their psychology professor by paying more attention and laughing at his jokes each time he stood in the right side of the room.

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Condition your teacher to get the fuck out of the class

Think about this in the context of performing feminity. So many women deny that they have been influenced to shave, wear makeup, wear heels, etc and claim they do it for themselves. But when you are receiving compliments and are getting treated better when you do those things, you are definitely being influenced.

Think of this in terms of race. If you are complimented for being light skinned, not only are you going to try to be as light skinned as you can manage, but you are going to associate darker skin with not being complimented therefore not being complimentary. Your values are going to shift to follow the dominant racial hierarchy *without you being aware* that you are valuing things that way.

reblogging this now bc the race angle was added!

Conditioning works in many, many ways. We as a society have managed to be conditioned as a collective by ourselves, government propaganda, rich people and more. This is why it is so hard to break our own programming and overcome our bigotry, too.