Dutch researchers have demonstrated that a run-down neighborhood can increase stereotyping. Participants were asked to answer questions related to prejudice in different physical environments. The more disordered the context, the more prejudiced they were. The results were confirmed in three consecutive studies, but also need to be confirmed/replicated by other researchers.
I speculate that the underlying reason for the results is a change in emotion. Negative emotion is a component of stereotypes, and if the emotion is altered, so is the stereotype. This may be a study you can use for the formation of stereotypes or as a study to illustrate the sociocultural principle of how our social environment affects our behavior (it also affected participants discriminating behavior, as measured by how far they were seated from a foreign person while answering the questionnaire) Abstract of the Dutch study on the effect of physical environment on stereotyping
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