Anyone who we perceived to look like the enemy in any way was complicit in that atrocity and couldn't be trusted.
If this sounds lofty, consider that a 2006 study showed that longtime married couples were perceived to look like one another -- the longer together, the more similar in appearance.
And in a virtual repeat of those days, investors this week sold assets that they perceived to be riskier, like stocks, and sought out safer places for their cash, like United States Treasury bills.
The officials said they were especially concerned that a terrorist plot would focus on a target perceived to be "soft," like a train station or a shopping mall.
Interestingly, unobtrusive objects, when perceived to be important — like a rare "ruyi," or scepter in parcel-gilt silver of the 16th century — caught the eye of a collector from mainland China, despite its heavy oxydization.
It's clear that someone who is perceived to "tell it like it is" feels trustworthy.
Once more, humans like those they perceive to be like them -- by mirroring them, you are, literally, in their same position.
Studies have shown that empathy is often very preferential to people that we perceive to be "like us" to the detriment of people that we perceive to be "not like us".
Gay and lesbian couples generally do not gravitate there, as they might to neighborhoods perceived to be more gay-friendly, like Park Slope, Brooklyn, or Chelsea in Manhattan.
The announcement of the bailout failed to settle bond markets, which bid up the price of debt in countries perceived to be in budget trouble, like Portugal and Spain.
