Allport’s hostility-driven model has dominated prejudice research for decades despite revisions

Evidence

Numerous revisions have been proffered to accommodate changes in racial attitudes since 1954 (Krysan, 2000; Gaertner & Dovidio, ch. 5 this volume), but Allport’s emphasis on a naively founded, irrational, individual-level hostility as the essential core of the problem has continued to hold sway among prejudice scholars. Consistent with Myrdal’s (1944) earlier lament that prejudice was a painful anachronism that clashed with the democratic principles undergirding other facets of American life, scholars hoped to facilitate social progress by finding the cure for democracy’s anomalous, festering sore – intergroup animosity based on ignorant, derogatory stereotypes. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 646