The role of emotion in racial prejudice
Date Submitted: 09/23/2002 23:51:47
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 6 pages (1619 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 6 pages (1619 words)
Racial prejudice was defined by Allport , one of the first researchers in psychology to investigate the issue, as "an aversive or hostile attitude towards a person who belongs to a group, simply because he or she belongs to that group, and is therefore presumed to have the objectionable qualities ascribed to that group. It is an antipathy based on a faulty and inflexible generalization" (Allport, 1954).
Racial prejudice exists on 3 levels: behavioral, cognitive and affective. The …
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