Modern prejudice research shows Allport was right that environment activates authoritarian fear

Evidence

In sum, the social attitude dimensions of authoritarianism and social dominance interact with outgroup characteristics to determine responses to those groups. Interestingly, this interactive hypothesis is consistent with Allport’s original proposal that social environment (e.g., threat and uncertainty) activate and direct the fearfulness and anxieties of authoritarians. However, in contrast to Allport and other’s early approaches to personality and prejudice, this model (and current research) suggests a more complex picture involving two empirically distinct individual-difference syndromes consisting of interrelated personality dispositions, social belief systems or worldviews, motivational goals or values, and social or ideological attitudes that interact with particular environmental and outgroup characteristics to cause prejudice. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2484

Categorization

• XREF: Converges with the modern dual-process model of prejudice found in Duckitt’s work and in later political-psychology syntheses.