Stereotypes Affecting People's Behavior

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Stereotypes are often referenced to provide “answers” to questions that often need justification. They are used to label and classify how an individual or group of people with generic similarities should act or live based upon their race, gender, appearance, or cultural identity. Every member of society is guilty of stereotyping a group or individual at one point or another; unfortunately, it is “man’s” way of knowing how to deal with a particular group or person in a singular situation. Although stereotyping is often executed and voiced subconsciously, the exterior act and ramifications are both negative and damaging to the esteem, perception, cultural and humanity of the group judgment is being placed upon.

There are multiple things horribly wrong with society, but what makes up society? We do. Welcome to a world where you are defined by what you wear and you get judged by are idea of perfection, also don’t forget about the thousands of stereotypes you will be placed under.

Stereotypes are an official representation of a community. That’s an obvious fallacy, but stereotypes are a concept that are seen as the unofficial, yet the official view of a certain community. Stereotypes are a complex yet simple concept that can either reinforce or dismantle someone’s view on another individual. Specifically, cultural stereotypes that are broadcasted on a basis. In today’s world, cultural stereotypes are used as a means of categorizing an individual or community without truly knowing them. Cultural stereotyping can negatively affect the individual experience by minimizing their value, differentiating how they’re viewed in society, and affecting how they’re treated.

In twenty-first century, our society already develops into an advanced technology level. However, somebody’s thoughts are not highly enough. Ideology leads different phenomenon to the society. Some phenomena are negative, and some are circumscribed. Such as: formalism, postmodernism, and stereotypes. Stereotype is a classic circumscribed ideology. Stereotype is a thought may or may not accurately reflect reality, be adopted for specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things. This perspective came from one specific example; some special habits of a group can make others think it is the group habit. When a police officer chat with an elder, a kid tells the officer: “Your dad is arguing with my dad!” the elder wonders whom the

I live by this quote about stereotypes, “I don’t believe in stereotypes. I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis” (I don’t believe in stereotypes). This shows that you shouldn’t hate on someone for the way they look, their background. You should judge them by their personal qualities. People judge others way too quickly by the way they look. Stereotypes are labels that are unfairly placed on people, and they affect all of us.

The various sources of media have the very important task of communicating information from one source to another without losing the element of truth and accuracy. Recently, The media in the form of newspapers and internet articles look at many issues from only one perspective in order to avoid confusion. While simplicity is often preferred and enjoyed by the audience, it has negative effects that can impact the understanding of a topic. When the media talks about occurring events in South America or the Middle East, sources use easy to understand, eye catching titles to grab people's attention. This method can keep things simple but can also make the topic contain a bias towards a specific opinion that eventually leads to the creation of stereotypes

Being stereotypes can cause us to do many things it can also influence us in many ways. Most of the time in my opinion we are all stereotyped because of our race, gender, religion or even ethnicity. I feel stereotyping can influence us in a bad way and can cause us to do something that can harm someone. We’ve all been stereotyped at least once and I’m pretty sure they do not like the feeling of it. For example millennials were always treated better they were taught as kids that they were great and smart. Then when they grew up and got a job they were taught reality. Millennials were born into an era where technology was developed and as years went by we were born and we were already introduced and keeps progressing but the bad thing is we are

I get the new issue of Cosmopolitan every month and each issue is pretty close to being the exact same. It’s filled with ads for the clothing brands, the latest beauty products and usually advice columns on sex or how to get a man. There was a story titled 3 Super Feminine Trends That Are Already Dominating NYFW, and it showed several photos of models walking down the runway in New York Fashion Week. Each one of the models looks emaciated. Their collar bones are popping out, their legs look like toothpicks, and the clothes that they are modeling are just hanging off of them, they don't even fit! I’ve always noticed how thin models were, and I’ve never understood why being extremely thin was a requirement to be a model. Its sad that a woman that is a size 4 is considered ‘plus size.’ The clothing ads include extremely photoshopped models, with thin bodies and perfect skin.

Stereotype was defined by Psychologists Hamilton and Troiler (1986) as a cognitive structure of some human groups on perceiver’s knowledge, beliefs, and life expectancies. This definition highlights an important characteristic of stereotypes that they are structures in the minds, and as such, they function in much the same way as other structures in the minds do. Psychologists call these cognitive structures as schema, and believe that schema help simplify a complex social environment by quickly and efficiently processing incoming stimuli based on the presence of a few relevant characteristics. People can have schema about objects (chairs, bicycles), events (what happens when we go to a restaurant), and people. Categorizing the world by telling the basic characteristics of the things people encounter is schema.

People are always saying “It’s what’s inside that counts”. How are girls supposed to believe that when advertisers and people around them show the exact opposite of what they say? We are shown throughout our whole lives that we need to look like a stereotypical beauty in order to be loved and wanted. The same way nerds are set into a specific group, short, smart, unpopular, glasses, braces, bad skin, pale, and the list goes on. Beautiful girls are also put into a group tall, skinny, blonde, popular, perfect skin, an airhead. They are told these things are what makes someone beautiful, through the TV shows and movies they watch, by the people they are around, and the things they read or do. They are influenced

In the era of globalization, and with the advent of sophisticated technology any message or idea gets spread like wildfire. In today’s times influencing common public is easy which results in commoner suffering the brunt of what some of their own leader's decision about any issue. The discussion of whether common people getting affected by groups’ ideology is a matter of debatable one with each side has its logical argument. In this essay, I would weave supporting arguments in favor of the notion that commoners are bearing the brunt of group’s aspiration on any fundamental issue.

Our decision-making might change as a consequence of interacting with a single individual or a group of people. We tend to have same opinion with others when we are in a group. An experiment about the effect of social influence was conducted. 563 participants were asked to recall how many medals Australia got in Sydney Olympics 2000. Participants were given ¡¥Low¡¦ (50%), ¡¥Accurate¡¦ or ¡¥High¡¦ (150%) examples. Result shows that participants tend to be influenced by examples given to them. Participants who were given ¡¥Low¡¦ examples had lower answers than those given ¡¥Accurate¡¦ examples while participants given ¡¥High¡¦ examples had higher answers than those given

For the experiment with tossing a coin expressed in the video How Juries are Fooled by Statistics, I chose C: on average it'll take less time to see head-tail-head (HTH) than head-tail-tail (HTT). I chose C because I assumed that the probability of tossing two tales in a row was lower than tossing a head, a tail, and then a head once more. I assumed the probability of tossing a head was higher than tossing a tail. However, I failed to consider the pattern when tossing the coin; it’s weighted for the benefit of HTT, so we need fewer coin tosses to get the pattern HTT. This is a glimpse into the effect statistics can have on intuition. Our brains are constantly processing data to make statistical assessments affect our intuition and confidence in decision making (Kepec, Hangya, & Sanders, 2016). This means that a misinterpreted statistic can affect our intuition in a biased way.

Sigall and Ostrove (1975) concluded by juror experiment that ugly accused are sentenced severer than good-looking one regarding physical attractiveness unassociated crime and vice versa. Another juror study of Doob and Kirshenbaum (1973) supports that s.12 Canadian Evidence Act creates bias as participants rate higher guiltiness level on defendant with criminal record. Diamond (1997) indicates deficiency of deliberation, insufficiency of trial imitation and etc. in jury simulation and also disbelief of court on the simulation. Also, Mook (1983) argues that concern of external validity is unnecessary if researchers do not aim to use experiment result to generalize theoretical assumption to real life situations.