Anti-Roma prejudice resists explanation as individual psychological bias

Evidence

The idea of prejudice as explicit or implicit bias only partly describes and explains the direction and intensity of prejudices and the uniqueness of targets of prejudice. As I argued in the Introduction to this book, history, as well as research, shows that not all prejudices are the same: they are culturally and ideologically situated, their expression depends on a complex interplay of socio-cultural, political and ideological factors. Portraying anti-Roma prejudices as fundamentally a psychological problem restricts the critical reach of questions that can be asked. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 737

Categorization

• XREF: Counterpoint to the implicit-bias literature dominating contemporary social psychology; connects to the learned-corrected claims about psychologizing social problems.

Related

• Prejudice research cannot be reduced to individual psychology (similarity 0.90)
• Anti-Roma prejudice is far more complex than direct hostility (similarity 0.88)
• Prejudice is formed and reproduced socially, not through internal psychological processes. (similarity 0.86)
• Roma are degraded and reminded of their degraded status (similarity 0.85)
• Prejudices against Roma are among the last socially acceptable prejudices (similarity 0.84)
• Prejudices are actively accomplished and sustained rather than passively held. (similarity 0.84)
• Prejudice is public harm to esteem, not merely private attitude (similarity 0.82)
• Prejudice is explained by societal characteristics, not only individual traits (similarity 0.81)
• Racism against Romani people is the last acceptable prejudice in Europe (similarity 0.81)
• Prejudices arising from denying moral worth need societal analysis (similarity 0.80)
• Understanding prejudice requires cultural, not merely psychological, analysis (similarity 0.80)
• Prejudice is an interpretive concept lacking fixed definition (similarity 0.80)
• Dehumanizing talk draws on shared cultural repertoires rather than individual antipathy (similarity 0.80)
• Even tolerant people express revulsion-themed hostility toward Roma (similarity 0.79)
• Prejudice is deliberately mobilized by elites for strategic gain, not merely implicit cognition (similarity 0.79)