Tolman proposed that humans, too, build such cognitive maps, and bravely suggested that these maps help us navigate not only space but the social and emotional relationships in “that great God-given maze that is our human world.” A narrow-minded map can lead one to devalue others and in the end to “desperately dangerous hates of outsiders” ranging in expression “from discrimination against minorities to world conflagrations,” Tolman wrote. The solution? Create broader cognitive maps in the mind that encompass bigger geographical boundaries and a wider social scope, embracing those we might
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