People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situation… - Daniel Kahneman

...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it describes what an agent (system 2) does than if it describes what something is, what properties it has.

Evaluating people as attractive or not is a basic assessment. You do that automatically whether or not you want to, and it influences you.

Those who avoid the sin of intellectual sloth could be called “engaged.” They are more alert, more intellectually active, less willing to be satisfied with superficially attractive answers, more skeptical about their intuitions.