Examples Of Implicit Stereotypes

What Would You Do, or WWYD for short, is a show about hypothetical moments asking what you would do in those situations. It shows what society is like in certain irking situations, like a person falling to the ground, or someone beating up a homeless person. I have a theory about all the situations I’m going to explain. I believe that most, if not all, situations have some form of implicit bias to them. Implicit bias is when someone judges someone just on first impressions, a lot like stereotypes.

First off, in one WWYD episode, there was a kid trying to break a chain on a bike in order to steal it. Also, they used many different actors of gender and race to see which one would get the bigger reaction. They had many different tools to try and get the chain off, like bolt cutters to a electric saw. First, they used a while male teen. Almost
The kids don’t think that the homeless are even human, using implicit bias in order to not feel bad when they beat them up. When the actors started to beat up the fake homeless person, the people didn’t step in just because of the kids, they did it to protect to homeless person. The people who stepped in aren’t biased, they just don’t want the homeless man to be hurt.

During one episode of WWYD, they did kid on leashes tied to a pole. Many pedestrians didn’t know that it was all an act, and were furious that the kids were tied to a pole outside. They confronted the “mom” and said it was totally wrong to do such a thing. They didn’t care what race or nationality she was, it was still wrong to them. This shows that they have no Implicit bias. People got even more mad when she tied the kids to a pole and took a dog inside the store, implying that she didn’t care about the kids, only the dog. They biased her has a bad mother and neglectful because of