Allport integrated motivational and cognitive accounts of prejudice that later psychology split
Evidence
Although the field subsequently emphasized a cognitive approach to prejudice consistent with Allport’s views, Allport was remarkably comfortable integrating motivational and cognitive influences. Allport maintained a balance in his consideration of these two important sources of prejudice that psychologists since have had difficulty achieving (see Tetlock & Levi, 1982), but which authors in this volume have striven to recapture. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 114
Although the field subsequently emphasized a cognitive approach to prejudice consistent with Allport’s views, Allport was remarkably comfortable integrating motivational and cognitive influences. Allport maintained a balance in his consideration of these two important sources of prejudice that psychologists since have had difficulty achieving (see Tetlock & Levi, 1982), but which authors in this volume have striven to recapture. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 114
Gordon Allport was in many ways the source of this “monomania” since he first drew scholars’ attention to the role of cognition in stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. Interestingly, Allport suggested that not only twisted and sick minds rely on unwarranted generalizations. Rather, he emphasized the normality of people’s faulty perceptions of social groups. In so doing, he claimed the study of prejudice and stereotyping as part of mainstream social psychology. Importantly, although Allport is known to have anticipated much of the later work on cognitive processes, he also emphasized the influence of motivational concerns in social perception. Over the years, it has become increasingly clear that motivational concerns must be fully integrated with cognitively-tuned approaches to stereotyping and prejudice. The field is only now achieving this kind of integration. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1144
Categorization
- XREF: Challenges the common reduction of Allport to a purely cognitive-stereotype theorist in the vault’s prejudice thread.
- corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 114; , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 114; , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1144