One consequence of negative attitudes toward a stigmatized group is that the group will end up succumbing to a self-fulfilling prophecy. If one person’s expectations or stereotypes are put upon a person or group of people it is possible that they will start to mimic those expectations unconsciously. They will start to take on the trait that is reflected onto them and that in turn justifies the person’s initial thoughts and feelings. It is a vicious cycle that goes around and around which end up having negative effects on whole groups of people. They have found this to be true with teachers and their expectations of certain students as well as in experiments where the experimenters’ expectations can influence the subjects’ responses.
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The operationalization of the independent variable in experiment 1 was the race of the applicants. The interview situation was arranged to give the subject-interviewers the opportunity to treat their applicants differently without knowledge. The experimenters accomplished this by having their behavior monitored and by not informing them when the applicant was going to be white or black. The operationalization of the dependent variable in experiment 1 was immediacy behaviors and related behaviors. The distance between the interviewer and the applicant, their eye contact, any forward leaning or the placement of the shoulders measured the immediacy behaviors. Related behaviors were measured by interview length and speech …show more content…
The reason for this is because according to the introduction when a person shows physical differences like a disability then there is less immediacy when interacting with another person. Another reason is one person’s belief in another person can cause the other person to then act in line with those beliefs. Based on the information from the introduction that people who were shown less friendly behavior, in turn, showed less friendly behavior themselves I would predict that the group in the high immediacy group would score higher in the dependent
The operationalization of the independent variable in experiment 1 was the race of the applicants. The interview situation was arranged to give the subject-interviewers the opportunity to treat their applicants differently without knowledge. The experimenters accomplished this by having their behavior monitored and by not informing them when the applicant was going to be white or black. The operationalization of the dependent variable in experiment 1 was immediacy behaviors and related behaviors. The distance between the interviewer and the applicant, their eye contact, any forward leaning or the placement of the shoulders measured the immediacy behaviors. Related behaviors were measured by interview length and speech …show more content…
The reason for this is because according to the introduction when a person shows physical differences like a disability then there is less immediacy when interacting with another person. Another reason is one person’s belief in another person can cause the other person to then act in line with those beliefs. Based on the information from the introduction that people who were shown less friendly behavior, in turn, showed less friendly behavior themselves I would predict that the group in the high immediacy group would score higher in the dependent