Jenny+Seoulciology

1. Select a topic  Prejudice and the self-fulfilling prophecy. 2. Define the problem The fast moving world right now changed the trend in such way that people are defined by their first impression, and that prejudice is hard to change. I would like to do a research to prove the self fulfilling prophecy, people’s perception varying depending on their bias, by conducting a research about first impression. 4. Hypothesis: If the experimenter is dressed up formally, then people would assume that the experimenter is actually older than the real age of the experimenter. If the experimenter is dressed up like a middle school student, then people would form a prejudice thinking that the experimenter is young. 5. Research method: The experimenter would dress up in two different ways and would conduct the research. The participants of the research would be asked two questions, first being “ How old am I?” and “Do you think I drink?” The first question is necessary to check the prejudiced formed and the second question is to confirm the existence of the self fulfilling prophecy, because if the experimenter looks older than people would assume that this person drink. The research method would be a survey, the experimenter recording their answers after each question.

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