#snap judgments

[mental-mona]

How First Impressions Work against Women

Our automatic assumptions are laden with gender bias.

[kategrainger]

Something I find we are all working on here is judgement. We do it all the time. That initial snap judgment at coming into a new situation, meeting a person for the first time.It's how we relate to the world; but we are trying to deconstruct this initial reaction to embrace a state of an open mind... it offers up so much more possibility and removes those nasty negative thoughts.

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[insidethestardc]

Snaps Judgment: Notes from Cowboys Week 3 Loss

Snaps Judgment: Notes from Cowboys Week 3 Loss

Aside from the Dallas Cowboys’ running game, the team really struggled to find ways to win consistently on both sides of the football. The snap distribution gives us a bit of an indication of what the Dallas Cowboys’ coaching thinks of the players on the roster.

As we peruse the snap counts for the Dallas Cowboys things have begun take shape on the offensive side of the ball. Particularly among…

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[lisamorguess]

An Open Letter to the Woman in the Pink Shirt at the Craft Store

An Open Letter to the Woman in the Pink Shirt at the Craft Store

Dear Woman in the Pink Shirt at the Craft Store, Forgive me, but I don’t know your name.  I don’t know anything about you, in fact, except that you and I happened to be in the same Michael’s store at the same time today, that you witnessed me speak sharply to my twelve-year-old daughter, and that you felt compelled to pull up behind me in the parking lot while I was buckling my four-year-old in,…

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[paulftompkins]

FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE PART 3:

JANIE & AARON DOES HOLLYWOOD EPISODE 31

There is a podcast that is recorded right in my own home by a wife I am married to! Her friend also appears. As do I, on this particular episode! 

SNAP'D!

STITCH. SUBSCRIBE.

Photo: Rebecca Sanabria

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Snap Judging Snap Judgments: Newtown, CT school shooting

At noon on December 14, we still know very little about the shooting at a Newtown, CT elementary school. Someone went into the school with a handgun and opened fire. Reports have multiple people shot and killed.

Already Twitter and Facebook are a flutter with people passing snap judgments on gun laws in America. And the news cycles are in full swing doing the jobs we demand of them. Which in this case comprises of mobs of reporters interviewing terrified 2nd and 3rd graders.

I have a few alternate snap judgments to throw out there.

1) Blame loves simplicity. We focus on the weapon immediately, and the holder of that weapon next. Later we focus on the immediate environment of the weapon holder. We rarely goes beyond because assessing the complicity of society at large gets ugly quickly.

2) It must be desperate times indeed if so many people feel the need to open fire on so many innocent lives so frequently.

3) Society demands we further traumatize little kids who have just been through a horrible experience by thrusting a camera and microphone in their faces so that people who have no direct connection to the incident can be occupied by minute by minute updates.

I don't know about you, but I'm gonna go on with my day, and wait to hear what cooler heads have determined about what happened. I have a niece and nephew in the New Jersey school system and they tell me about emergency drills they do to prepare for situations like these. As I think back to my elementary school days and our tornado and nuclear bomb drills, I can't help but think about how fortunate we were to have such impalpable boogey men.