Stereotypes

Wikipedia defines stereotypes as a commonly held public belief about specific social groups or type of individuals which is similar to prejudice, but stereotypes are not based on the information that we saw but rather a subjective or sometime unverifiable content-matter. The stereotypes and prejudice definitely play a big role in everyone's life, it affects how people treat others base on what they saw and their own definition of each stereotype. As Synder includes several experiments to show how stereotypes can affect people in every aspect such as in the telephone experiment, classroom and work place stereotypes, or Betty K.'s case. These prove that stereotypes have a hugh impact someone's thought and reactions, in which can do a positive and negative consequences.

In telephone experiment, we can see that men start to treat each woman differently when they see their pictures; the pretty one with a nicer tone of voice and more gentle while they treat unattractive one totally different. As the consequence of the rudeness attitude toward the girls so they just give the same attitude back. Like Mohr mentions in the article that, "If people treat others in such a way as to bring out behavior that supports stereotypes, they may never have an opportunity to discover which of their stereotypes are wrong". Because you treat someone not nice, how would you expect that person to be nice? so you cannot judge someone based on that. I think everyone should follow the golden rule which is "treat people the way you want to be treated" and "don't judge the book by its cover".