People gravitate to stereotypes when the disorder around reigns

The disorder around pushes people more strongly to adhere to stereotypes, — the Netherlands scientists from Tilburgsky university Sigvart Lindenberg and Diderik have proved the Building berth. Results has presented Nature News, referring to magazine Science.

Let's notice that the experimental part of work at the initial stage has had for strike of yard keepers in Utrecht. Experts offered volunteers from among passers-by in the street to answer some questions on how much representatives national and sexual minorities correspond to stereotypic representations about them. For example, if it was a question of homosexuals among the offered variants of answers was "effeminate", "clever", "creative", "impatient" etc.

Repeatedly experiment has been spent after strike has been stopped — and in streets have cleaned garbage. Having analysed results of poll, scientists have come to a conclusion that people followed stereotypes when the greatest chaos was around observed is more often.

Besides, experimenters imperceptibly for the interrogated observed of tolerance level in relation to representatives of other race. So, it was noticed that, the more garbage was around, the participants of experiment from people with skin colour distinct from further tried to keep.

It is known that else in 1980 year two American sociologists, George Kellinggom and James Wilson, was «the theory of the broken windows» according to which, at the person day by day observing round signs antisocial of behaviour, for example, graffiti on walls, the turned garbage tanks, the broken windows, — the model of behaviour meeting surrounding situation is subconsciously formed is developed. So the inserted plastic windows and the general order though all problems also will not solve, and, seemingly, in our eyes indeed will change the world to the best.