THE SUMMARY OF AN INTERESTING ESSAY I READ TODAY This essay argues that labels, no matter verbal or non-verbal, affect behaviors of people to a remarkable extent. For instance, as an educational psychological experiment shows, after the ordinary students are labeled as intelligent students, the changes on the teachers’ expectation, words and body language result in their relatively better performance. Furthermore, a similar experiment on mice indicates that labeling even doesn't need human language. In fact, not only in school does it happen, but also in a variety of fields in people’s life. Nationalities, families, genders, racial groups, given names are all the factors which cause the stereotypes. In some cases, labeling limits free space of personal development, especially when people are labeled by their family members. Most of people live in the shadow of labels from cradle to grave so that people should get aware of the power of it and take it seriously.