Emotion drives even ordinary everyday prejudice, not just extremist bigotry

Evidence

The work of the past halfcentury shows that Allport was right on several key points. Hot emotions are part of the picture of intergroup reactions – this is perhaps the key idea of his chapter and, surprisingly, it was neglected until the last decade or so. Notably, recent research (e.g., on aversive racism and on Intergroup Emotions Theory and the Stereotype Content Model) establishes that emotions are important components of even the more “normal,” everyday types of stereotyping and prejudice that afflict so many of us, not only for understanding the Nazis or other extreme bigots who were the focus of research attention in the 1950s. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2279

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the shift in prejudice research from overt bigotry to subtle aversive racism; connects to Sears’ symbolic racism work.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2279