Allport arbitrarily excluded positive sentiments from his definition of prejudice
Evidence
Even though Allport acknowledged that dictionary deļ¬nitions recognize positive as well as negative prejudice (p. 6), he disallowed positive sentiments as relevant to his understanding of prejudice and conļ¬ned his analysis to prejudice as antipathy. ā John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 184