Open research questions remain on how categories guide prejudiced behavior

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

Categorization

• QUESTION: A live agenda of what contact theory still hasn’t answered — useful for framing a vault update piece.
• SEED: The unresolved questions list could frame an essay on how far prejudice research has and hasn’t come since Allport.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 350