Life doesn't want to be labeled again! Using the "label effect" of psychology to improve self-confidence.

Will the "label effect" only have a bad effect? Actually, not necessarily. We can also use it to improve our confidence. For example, when we take action to help others, we label ourselves as "enthusiastic"; When we get good grades, we label ourselves as "smart and hardworking". After labeling ourselves with these labels, we will gradually behave in line with these labels, and we will become better and better.

1968 Jane Eliot, a primary school teacher in Iowa, USA, designed a classic "label experiment" to let children know what prejudice is.

Jane Eliot divided the students in her class into two groups according to the color of their eyes, one with blue eyes and the other with brown eyes.

On the first day of the experiment, Jane Eliot told the children in a serious tone: children with blue eyes are usually stupid; Children with brown eyes are often smarter. Not only that, she also stipulates that children with blue eyes must wear an ugly scarf and can only sit at the back of the classroom. Two groups of children can't play together, and the children with brown eyes are better treated.

Unexpectedly, after hearing such a "label", those children with blue eyes changed their expressions from initial anger to sadness in less than a day, and finally accepted this "false reality".

They feel really stupid and have no confidence. On the contrary, students with brown eyes think they are better and show arrogance.

At the beginning of class the next day, Jane Eliot came into the classroom and told the students in an exaggerated tone that she had made a mistake-in fact, children with blue eyes were smarter and children with brown eyes were more stupid. She changed all the rules on the other side, including wearing an ugly scarf.

Soon, everything changed. Children with blue eyes feel that they have become smarter and are far ahead of children with brown eyes in quizzes of similar difficulty; The child with brown eyes showed all the depression and depression that the child with blue eyes showed the day before.

After the two-day experiment, Jane Eliot told all the students that it was an experiment and the purpose of the experiment. She asked the two groups of children to hug each other and make up, and wrote down the feelings of these two days.

Like the above story, Miss Jane Eliot not only taught her students a shocking lesson, but also taught the world a lesson. The so-called label effect means that once a person is labeled, everyone will focus on that label, and after a long time, he may become the same person as the label.