Group prejudice links to general personality traits rather than to psychiatric illness.

Evidence

Ackerman and Jahoda were so guarded in the analysis of their material that one might have concluded, with only a few reservations, that what The Authoritarian Personality had shown on the basis of 121 patients in a psychiatric clinic was apparently in principle correct: that there were no obvious correspondences between prejudice and mental illness. The appearance of group prejudices was principally linked to certain general personality traits which did not correspond to psychiatric classifications, but were often more marked among those mentally ill. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1833

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Prejudice arises from group identities rather than individual psychology — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 142; Rejecting one outgroup predicts rejecting all outgroups, marking prejudice as a personality trait — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2427; Prejudice is a group-level status defense, not individual hostility — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 653 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Rejecting one outgroup predicts rejecting all outgroups, marking prejudice as a personality trait #corroborates (0.95) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2427
• Prejudice arises from group identities rather than individual psychology #contradicts (0.80) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 142
• Most prejudice reduces to two personality types #contradicts (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 953
• Prejudice is a group-level status defense, not individual hostility #contradicts (0.75) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 653
• Prejudice is explained by societal characteristics, not only individual traits #qualifies (0.75) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 81