Project SherlockEst. Knowledge

Book

1954

The Nature of Prejudice

Gordon W. Allport

Argues prejudice is an overgeneralised, resistant attitude rooted in normal cognitive categorisation rather than pathology, and lays out the contact conditions under which intergroup exposure reduces rather than hardens it.

No free copy is linked yet — expect to buy or borrow this one elsewhere.

Groundwork for

Works in the library that name this one as a prerequisite.

Experiments in Intergroup DiscriminationHenri Tajfel, 1970Finds that dividing strangers into groups by a trivial, meaningless criterion is enough to make them favour their own group's members over the other's, locating the root of intergroup bias in mere categorisation itself.

Filed under Social Psychology in Psychology.