All people harbor prejudice as a normal cognitive function

Evidence

In titling his chapter 2 “The Normality of Prejudgment,” Allport sparked a revolution; humans have a normal, natural propensity toward prejudgment. Whereas most social-scientific observers had viewed prejudice as the product of complex psychodynamics, Allport provided an alternative. Even now, most lay people believe prejudice is the purview of a disfavored few, those with abnormal impulses. Instead, Allport suggested, all people are subject to prejudices, as a function of the normal human cognitive apparatus. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 285

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the common lay (and pre-Allport scientific) assumption that prejudice belongs to an abnormal few; central to contact-theory reassessment since it shifts the target population from deviants to everyone. — connects to: Prejudiced people are normal because they are well adapted to their culture. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1834; Cognitive biases are an inherited feature of all human brains, not curable — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 115
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 285