Categorization inherently produces prejudgment that cannot be avoided

Evidence

Allport anticipated the rapid, thoughtless, even automatic nature of categorization, and its link to prejudices: “The human mind must think with the aid of categories … We cannot possibly avoid this process … [that] results inevitably in prejudgments” (Allport, 1954/1979, pp. 20, 24, italics added). Social psychologists and their lay audiences have been shocked by how rapidly categories cue ingroup advantages to us and match outgroup stereotypes to them. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 297

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 297