Allport attributed prejudice to fear and anxiety while Adorno traced it to displaced aggression

Evidence

There are four interesting differences in Allport and Adorno et al.’s views of the authoritarian personality, all of which are relevant to subsequent research and theoretical developments on personality and prejudice. (1) For Allport, the fearfulness, inadequacy, and anxiety of the authoritarian was at the core of his or her prejudice, while for Adorno et al. it was displaced hostility and aggression. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2439

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how competing theories locate the root cause of the same phenomenon — analogous to the trust-vs-risk debates in earlier knowledge base work.