How Race-related Stereotype Influence Perceptions of Disorder in An Experimental Research

• Main Authors: Chih-Chao Pao, 包志超
• Other Authors: 楊曙銘
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25235007697600454628

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 犯罪防治研究所 === 101 === 　　This study explores the formation of perceptions of disorder specified in the broken windows thesis. Particularly, the study wants to examine whether social actor’s race affects individual’s judgment of the levels of disorderliness of a place. 　　To understand the effects of race on individual’s perceptions of disorder, thirty-six pictures were used as the study materials in the experimental process: 12 pictures have no social actors in them and serve as the comparison group, 12 pictures contain Taiwanese social actors, and another 12 pictures contain social actors resembling foreign labors. Totally, 240 students were recruited from National Chung Cheng University as respondents. Individual’s responses to pictures, response time, and mouse-moving trajectories were recorded during the process. 　　 　　The results show that individuals reacted faster on the comparison pictures than on the pictures with social actors, no matter which racial groups the social actors belong to. Additionally, respondents were more likely to rate the pictures to be disorderly if the social actors within the pictures are foreigners than if the social actors are Taiwanese, or if the pictures contain no social actors. Taiwan has been a racially homogeneous country and thus, society does not expect individuals to constantly be aware of fair treatment of people of different races. Lacking of awareness of racial equality leads to the explicit expression of stereotypical biases in our society.