People can hold prejudices without any conscious awareness of them

Evidence

In contrast, research since the publication of The Nature of Prejudice has recognized that people may not only be unaware of the source of their prejudice (Sears) but also may not be conscious that they have prejudiced beliefs and feelings that influence their behavior in significant ways (Fiske, Gaertner & Dovidio, Rudman). Allport did not anticipate nor prepare the field for the significant impact of research on implicit social cognition that has occurred over the past decade for understanding prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 148

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the vault’s Allport reassessment thread: implicitly challenges Allport’s framing that prejudiced people are merely ‘genuine bigots’ lacking insight rather than unconsciously biased. — connects to: Instant likes and dislikes often arise without any introspectively accessible basis. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 107; People follow adaptive taboos without any shared causal understanding of why — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 332
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 148