Core questions about categories and prejudice remain unresolved decades after Allport

Evidence

Researchers can profit by continuing to mine Allport with new methods and insights. Go back to Allport’s five principles, listed earlier, and see how many issues are still unresolved or just beginning to be explored. Exactly how do categories function to guide actual behavior? How are prejudiced attitudes and behavior linked? What constitutes a good-enough social category for daily adjustments? Which of many possible categories will people will use? How exactly do categories generalize to individuals? What is the role of differentiated emotions? How irrational, exactly, are social categories? — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 350 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Open research questions remain on how categories guide prejudiced behavior — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 350; Allport’s core questions about categories remain largely unanswered; Whether stereotypes cause or rationalize prejudice is still unresolved after fifty years of study — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 101

Broader Connections

• Allport’s core questions about categories remain largely unanswered #corroborates (0.97)
• Open research questions remain on how categories guide prejudiced behavior #corroborates (0.95) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 350