Allport located generalized prejudice in ego weakness under threat and ambiguity

Evidence

At the core of this prejudiced personality were a set of traits Allport summed up as “ego weakness” – insecurity, fearfulness, anxiety and an inability to cope effectively with one’s own inner tensions, conflicts, and anxieties, or with uncertainty, threat, change, and ambiguity in the external world. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2429

Categorization

• DEFINE: Ego weakness as Allport’s catch-all for the prejudiced personality’s core dispositions.