Allport’s individual-hostility framing still dominates prejudice scholarship despite revisions

Evidence

His homey, lucid exposition quickly became the reigning view (e.g., Duckitt, 2003; Stephan, 1985). 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. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 646

Categorization

• XREF: Frames the whole reassessment thread against Allport; this is the baseline claim the contact-theory chapter is checking.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 646