First of all, we should
know what is stereotype. The definition of stereotype in psychological way is
no more likely the way people think is in general. Stereotype is the
way how people view a group of people or a thing base on the experiences before
either limited information we have known before. Stereotype can be uses on a
helpful way either on a nasty way. Somehow, people use stereotypes to view
out-groups differently base on race, gender and so on. As explicit
discrimination has receded in the last 2 decades; in the elevation of an
African-American to the Presidency, a woman to the House speakership and a
black woman to the galactic dominance known as being Oprah Winfrey… Overall, it
has brought up a question to psychologist: Is discrimination is less powerful?
How to explain the phenomena that some groups in society continue to fare wores
than others? Has bias merely become better hidden, or there is something else?
One
theory has been discovered from it among sociologists called
Stereotype Threat. So what is Stereotype Threat? Is that the force work
among those groups of people to feel worse? It has shown that stereotype threat
is that some members of stigmatized groups, when faced with stressful
situations, expect themselves to do worse – a prophecy (foreshadowing) that
fulfills itself.
Stereotype effect our judgement of first
impression when we meet strangers. we are biased by the information form the
first impression, it has called as confirmation-
bias. People form impression
very fast; because we don't need to see much of a person to get a fairly
accurate picture of who they are, it is called as Thin slices.
Of course, we might wonder what actually
helped us form the impression. What are
the effect of being perceive in a certain way? From the experiment of Pygmalion
Effect by Rosenthal and Jackson, we got know that expectation really matter. The
purpose of the experiment was support that hypothsis that reality can be
influenced by the expectation of others.
