Discovering Prejudices In Your Beliefs
As egocentric thinkers, we see ourselves as possessing the truth. At the same time, we form many beliefs without evidence to justify them, and we form any prejudices (judgments before the evidence). If this is true, we should unearth some of our prejudices by using our rational capacity.
1. One of the prejudices I have is.......(Think of generalizations you tend to make even though you don't have the evidence to justify them. Put your prejudices in this form: All X are Y, as in "All women are ______________________" or "All men are ______________________.")
2. A more rational belief with which I should replace this faulty belief with ...........
3. If I use this new belief in my thinking, my behavior would change in the following ways:
4. The origin of this prejudice is ____________________.