Fifty years passed without direct empirical tests of Allport’s antilocution claims.

Evidence

Similarly, Allport’s ideas about how antilocutions can produce either an escalation or an attenuation of negative feelings and behavior have not been directly tested empirically in the intervening 50 years since the publication of The Nature of Prejudice. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1275

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why has a central, testable claim of the field’s founding text gone untested for five decades? Methodological difficulty or lack of interest?