Ethnic stereotypes, cognitive style and mutual classification of national characteristics of an individual

Anthropological standard ¬¬- assessment of a person's internal and psychological qualities, is formed in 
connection with his anthropological features, i.e. appearance. Panferov found that when evaluating another person, 
people perceive the addition of certain qualities based on common features of his facial structure (face shape, eye 
position, mouth size, etc.). Such stereotypes apply regardless of the gender of the person being evaluated. 
Ethnic stereotypes are manifested when a person is assessed psychologically based on his or her race, 
nationality, ethnicity and lineage. For example, a German-is pedantic, southerner is temperamental" and others. J. 
Bruner's research has shown that people's perceptions of a stranger are formed on the basis of existing perceptions of 
the national or ethnic group to which they belong [1, 74-75b]. Such stereotypes are especially strong in people with 
very little knowledge of that particular nation or ethnic group. The more a person knows about a nation, the longer 
he lives among them, the better he knows their language and culture, the less likely it is that such stereotypes will 
have a strong effect on the evaluation of that nation for that person. Anthropological and ethno-national stereotypes 
are less reliable and can be used to misrepresent an individual.
Stereotypes of social status are observed when a person's personal qualities are assessed in accordance 
with his social status. An interesting experiment was conducted by P. Wilson [3,43-44b]. He entered the auditorium
full of students with a stranger and said that a special experiment would be conducted with the help of someone next 
to them. Ethically, he introduced the stranger but while introducing him, he described “Mr. Ingland” as a Cambridge 
University student in the first group, a tutor of lower than professor’s status at the same university in the second 
group, and a professor in the third group. The students were asked to look around and find out how tall this man 
was. The results were amazing. The difference between the first group, those who accepted Mr. Ingland as a 
"student" and those who considered him a "professor," was 12 centimeters. The higher was the social status of the 
perceived person, the higher were the physical features attributed to him.