It should be a kind of surprise at first, when you notice something about that person which you do not expect to happen/apply to you, and then an evaluation of how good or bad that something is, and then a judgement of whether it is deserved, and then a conclusion about the person’s status. Overall, yes, neurotransmitters doing stuff, certainly. (But how?..:()However, this is only what I find plausible.
If this is true, then a change at any stage might change your mind about the status. Say, you think the person receives undeserved attention, but then somebody says, ‘He’s a war hero!’, and your view of their situation will depend on the side of the war you support, but nonetheless you will likely not be surprised by how others treat the man.
There’s also people’s power over each other that is taken into account.
What I would not expect to see, is a psychologically healthy individual not changing their mind about someone’s status if given evidence that the someone behaves or is treated differently than the status ‘suggests’, but there are certainly examples of this happening. Another step would be to say that there is a bigger weight assigned to keeping the evaluation constant and it is also somehow written in neurotransmitter (and established neuronal connections), but it really just pushes the question further.
It should be a kind of surprise at first, when you notice something about that person which you do not expect to happen/apply to you, and then an evaluation of how good or bad that something is, and then a judgement of whether it is deserved, and then a conclusion about the person’s status. Overall, yes, neurotransmitters doing stuff, certainly. (But how?..:()However, this is only what I find plausible. If this is true, then a change at any stage might change your mind about the status. Say, you think the person receives undeserved attention, but then somebody says, ‘He’s a war hero!’, and your view of their situation will depend on the side of the war you support, but nonetheless you will likely not be surprised by how others treat the man.
There’s also people’s power over each other that is taken into account. What I would not expect to see, is a psychologically healthy individual not changing their mind about someone’s status if given evidence that the someone behaves or is treated differently than the status ‘suggests’, but there are certainly examples of this happening. Another step would be to say that there is a bigger weight assigned to keeping the evaluation constant and it is also somehow written in neurotransmitter (and established neuronal connections), but it really just pushes the question further.