Allport predicted victims’ response style depends on their attribution tendencies
Evidence
In particular, he emphasized targets’ personality as the driving force behind reactions to prejudice in his suggestion that extropunitive and intropunitive people would respond to prejudice differently. He hypothesized that people who tend to be “extropunitive” (i.e., who characteristically attribute the cause of personal events to things outside of themselves) will likely adopt outwardly focused defenses (e.g., aggression against the outgroup), whereas people who characteristically tend to be “intropunitive” (i.e., who attribute responsibility for events to themselves) will likely adopt inwardly focused defenses (e.g., denial of membership, self-hate, and ingroup aggression). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 929 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Allport catalogued ego-defensive responses to victimization across multiple domains — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1035; Personality attribution style determines whether victims externalize or internalize prejudice.; Blame attribution styles shape how targets of prejudice cope psychically (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Prejudice victims’ personality orientation predicts whether their defenses are outward or inward
#corroborates(0.93) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 929 - Personality attribution style determines whether victims externalize or internalize prejudice.
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