I flipped out when my son reached for our knife block, but maybe I didn't need to react quite so intensely.
Here's a link to the Hidden Brain episode I mentioned: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/876073130/the-air-we-breathe-implicit-bias-and-police-shootings
And some other links that I was poking around on related to the concept of thinking slow:
https://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-English-Bhante-Henepola-Gunaratana/dp/0861719069