Prejudice is a universal inheritance of normal cognition, not abnormal impulse.

Evidence

In titling his chapter 2 “The Normality of Prejudgment,” Allport sparked a revolution; humans have a normal, natural propensity toward prejudgment. Whereas most social-scientific observers had viewed prejudice as the product of complex psychodynamics, Allport provided an alternative. Even now, most lay people believe prejudice is the purview of a disfavored few, those with abnormal impulses. Instead, Allport suggested, all people are subject to prejudices, as a function of the normal human cognitive apparatus. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 285

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the lay and older psychodynamic framing that prejudice belongs only to aberrant individuals — relevant to vault claims about who holds prejudice.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 285