Context-specific prejudice can coexist with neutral overall attitudes

Evidence

However, the devaluation – that is, the downward attitudinal shift – does not necessarily produce a negative attitude, nor is the overall context-free attitude toward the target group necessarily negative. The key eliciting condition for prejudice is the potential or actual entry of group members into social roles to which they are stereotypically mismatched. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 223

Categorization

• XREF: Directly complicates Allport’s context-free definition of prejudice already in the vault; role-context devaluation may explain ambivalent prejudice better than blanket hostility. — connects to: Distinct structural relations produce qualitatively different forms of prejudice — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 305
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 223