Prejudice emotions are distinct, not interchangeable products of one frustration pool

Evidence

Allport missed some things, however. Perhaps the most important new insight is that many emotions, not only hatred, are involved in intergroup relations. Moreover, these differentiated emotions have distinct causes and effects. Allport’s model focused on hatred and considered negative emotions to be largely interchangeable, driven by a single inner “pool” of frustration that seeks an expression, even against a displaced target. However, current thinking on emotion distinguishes anger from fear, disgust, contempt, guilt, and other possibilities, as distinct emotions with different determinants (people’s appraisals of intergroup situations) and different effects (action tendencies). The current focus on the antecedents and consequences of differentiated emotional reactions provides predictive power beyond Allport’s more narrow focus on hatred. Recent work even demonstrates that prejudice can involve subjectively positive emotions; as noted earlier, research on the Stereotype Content Model shows that women, the elderly, and the handicapped often elicit sympathetic reactions that coexist with stereotypes of these groups’ incompetence (Fiske et al., 2002). — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2282 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Because Allport defined prejudice as an antipathy, he emphasized negative emotions as a critical element of intergroup relations. Allport devoted three chapters to these emotions: chapter 21, “Frustration”; chapter 22, “Aggression and Hatred”; chapter 23, “Anxiety, Sex, Guilt.” Contemporary prejudice research has recently “rediscovered” emotions and how different emotions may reflect different types of prejudice and precipitate different kinds of responses (Smith & Mackie). — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 120 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Envious and paternalistic prejudices are psychologically consistent mixed feelings, not ambivalent ones. — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 301; Different negative emotions drive distinct types of prejudice and responses — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 120; Prejudice involves differentiated emotions, including subjectively positive ones (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Distinct emotions rather than a single pool of hatred drive intergroup prejudice #corroborates (0.97) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2282
• Different negative emotions drive distinct types of prejudice and responses #corroborates (0.95) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 120