Prejudice arises from group identities rather than individual psychology

Evidence

Other researchers have replaced Allport’s negative evaluation metatheory with a new metatheory based on the importance of group membership. According to this view, ‘prejudice is bound up with the dynamics of ongoing intergroup relations, and the way that people make sense of these relations and form a shared collective view of their social world’ (Reynolds et al . 2012 , pp. 49–50). Prejudice fl ows not from the psychology of individuals, but from social identities and social/political ideologies that are associated with these (Turner and Reynolds, 2003 ). — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 142

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the self-categorization/social identity metatheory as against Allport’s individual-psychology framing.
• XREF: connects to: Group prejudice links to general personality traits rather than to psychiatric illness. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1833; the MOC “The Wound of the Label: When Knowing Someone Becomes a Way of Erasing Them”; the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War” (+1 more)

Related

• All prejudice involves intergroup relations with a built-in ingroup preference (similarity 0.88)
• Prejudice should be studied as collective societal thinking rather than only individual psychology (similarity 0.88)
• Prejudice stems from identity needs, not personality or resource competition (similarity 0.87)
• Group prejudice links to general personality traits rather than to psychiatric illness. (similarity 0.87)
• Prejudice gains power from shared identity, leadership, and politics, not individual bias (similarity 0.86)
• Prejudice is explained by societal characteristics, not only individual traits (similarity 0.86)
• Understanding prejudice requires locating attitudes in collective symbolic contexts (similarity 0.86)
• Intergroup relations begin when people adopt collective rather than personal identity (similarity 0.86)
• Prejudice is primary; categorization only serves it (similarity 0.85)
• Prejudice is a group-level status defense, not individual hostility (similarity 0.84)
• Prejudice partly stems from the need for positive social identity via group comparison. (similarity 0.84)
• Prejudice combines cognitive, motivational, and socialized causes (similarity 0.84)
• Personality and intergroup approaches to prejudice have barely integrated over fifty years (similarity 0.84)
• Group-difference beliefs only become problematic when they justify prejudice (similarity 0.84)
• Individual-difference theories cannot explain how prejudice reproduces as collective ideology (similarity 0.84)