A single Allport chapter seeded the modern field of prejudice target research

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In The Nature of Prejudice, Allport devoted but a single chapter to the psychological impact of prejudice on those who are its targets: chapter 9, titled “Traits Due to Victimization.” Despite its brevity, this seminal chapter anticipated many of the research questions that scholars interested in responses to prejudice pursue today. The present chapter outlines Allport’s contribution to a growing body of literature that has begun to yield answers to the question he asked at the beginning of his chapter, “Ask yourself what would happen to your own personality if you heard it said over and over again that you were lazy, a simple child of nature, expected to steal, and had inferior blood?” (Allport, 1954/1979, p. 142). — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 926

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• XREF: Connects to stereotype threat, reflected appraisal, and self-fulfilling prophecy literatures in social psychology. — connects to: Systematic mediational comparison in threat-compensation research was first undertaken here. — Dmitrij Agroskin and Eva Jonas, Controlling death by defending…, 42