Prejudice is context-specific toward individuals, not a global attitude toward groups

Evidence

However, in contrast to Allport’s understanding, this prejudicially lowered evaluation refers not to the overall attitude toward the group, but to attitudes toward individual group members in role-incongruent contexts. This attitude can be expressed through downward shifts in all three of the modes in which attitudes are generally expressed (Eagly & Chaiken, 1993), specifically (a) beliefs, (b) emotions, and (c) discriminatory behaviors. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 192

This approach incorporates Allport’s view that prejudice occurs when people are placed at some disadvantage that is not warranted by their individual actions or qualifications – “thinking ill of others without sufficient warrant” (p. 6). However, in contrast to Allport’s understanding, this prejudicially lowered evaluation refers not to the overall attitude toward the group, but to attitudes toward individual group members in role-incongruent contexts. This attitude can be expressed through downward shifts in all three of the modes in which attitudes are generally expressed (Eagly & Chaiken, 1993), specifically (a) beliefs, (b) emotions, and (c) discriminatory behaviors. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 192

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 192