Allport rejected the premise that prejudice harmfully affects all its targets uniformly

Evidence

Allport assumed that the constancy of denigration and discrimination took a psychological toll on Black children and Black people generally. This was a prevailing premise in the 1940s and 1950s among social scientists. … But whereas most theorists assumed that negative effects were universal, Allport instead argued for the basic human motivation to cope with, adapt to, and survive oppressive circumstances. Therefore his ideas about the effects of prejudice on its targets were a broad mixture of ego-defenses, strategic manipulations, and collective actions that preserved psychological and physical well-being. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1039

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s prejudice-psychology reassessment thread, where Allport’s resilience-based view sets up modern work on stigma, coping, and identity.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1039