Allport’s prejudice framework centered anti-Semitism and took psychodynamic projection seriously.

Evidence

This story would certainly have been of interest to Gordon Allport. Although in recent years social psychologists have typically framed their discussions and analyses of intergroup hostility in terms of anti-Black prejudice, Allport’s classic book The Nature of Prejudice was written in the shadow of the Second World War. As a result, his discussion of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination was more likely to take anti-Semitism as its point of departure. In addition, he wrote at a time when psychoanalytic ideas had a very different status in mainstream social psychology than they do today. Allport took psychodynamic theorizing and its implications for understanding prejudice very seriously, and was especially intrigued with projection. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2336

Categorization

• XREF: Directly frames the intellectual lineage behind the whole chapter, connecting to the parent volume’s theme of re-examining Allport.