The Nature of Prejudice

Allport, G. W. (1954). The Nature of Prejudice. Addison-Wesley.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Textbook

Year

1954

Link

https://archive.org/details/natureofprejudic0000allp

Cited from

psychology, sociology_anthropology

Cited by

6 citations across 5 artifacts.

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Primes

• Ethnocentrism
  • Allport's work on prejudice

    This sourceClassic analysis establishing the contact hypothesis: prejudice is reduced by intergroup contact under equal status, common goals, cooperation, and institutional support, whereas displaced-hostility/scapegoating dynamics persist when only surface attitudes are targeted.

• In-Group / Out-Group
  • Allport's (1954) analysis of prejudice made this separation foundational, distinguishing the cognitive act of categorization from the affective and behavioral asymmetries that accrue to it.

    This sourceClassic analysis of how out-groups absorb displaced hostility during periods of frustration

• Scapegoating
  • The selection of that locus is governed not by causal responsibility but by markedness, visibility, and vulnerability, a regularity Allport (1954) documented in his classic analysis of how out-groups absorb displaced hostility during periods of frustration.
• Stereotyping
  • As Allport (1954) detailed in his foundational treatment of prejudice, the agent observes a category cue (race, gender, age, occupation, nationality), activates an associated prototype or expectation, and projects that expectation onto the individual without detailed assessment.

    This sourceClassic analysis of how out-groups absorb displaced hostility during periods of frustration

  • As Allport (1954) argued in The Nature of Prejudice, clarity here redirects attention from moral judgment ("Are stereotypes bad?") to structural mechanism ("How are categories being applied to individuals, and what information is being lost in that compression?").

    This sourceReframes the analysis of stereotypes from moral judgment ("are they bad?") to structural mechanism ("how is category information being applied to individuals?")—surfacing the cognitive operation that makes prejudice possible.

Mechanisms

• Voluntary Contact Session
  • It is the operational core of Allport's contact hypothesis, which held that contact reduces prejudice not automatically but under enabling conditions — equal status, cooperation toward common goals, and supportive sponsorship.

    This sourceFrames prejudice-reducing contact as conditional on equal status, common goals, cooperation, and authority support.

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