Prejudice shapes behavior through situational context rather than requiring internalization

Evidence

Our expanded treatment of prejudice rests upon the simple idea of role incongruity – that prejudice often results from the mismatch between beliefs about the attributes typically possessed by members of a social group (that is, their stereotype) and beliefs about the attributes that facilitate success in valued social roles. … Such incongruity between stereotypical characteristics and social roles does not necessarily lead to a generalized hostile attitude toward the mismatched individual but to a decline in evaluation relative to a matched individual in the context of the particular role. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 174 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Allport most convincingly argued for three social mechanisms of acquisition: learning, conformity, and contact. He proposed that parents were most influential as children learned and conformed to societal rules, yet peers were most likely to provide contact in biracial schools. Although Allport touched on the more psychological processes of identity and developmental sequencing, the cognitive revolution that gave full force to such constructs was a decade away. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1974 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Allport characterized intergroup conflict as stemming from both perceptual and goal-driven causes, which could be rational or irrational. Further, he recognized in The Nature of Prejudice that cognitive and motivational precursors to prejudice operate in a context that is influenced by developmental processes and socialization forces. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 126 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Distinct structural relations produce qualitatively different forms of prejudice — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 305; Social psychologists explain genocidal behavior through situational pressure plus unexamined psychological processes — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 352; Milgram reframed perpetrator compliance as situational deference, not coerced obedience — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 46 (+18 more)

Broader Connections

• Prejudice arises from role-context devaluation, not from negative attitudes alone #corroborates (0.92) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 174
• Prejudice is acquired through learning, conformity, and intergroup contact #complicates (0.74) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1974
• Prejudice combines cognitive, motivational, and socialized causes #complicates (0.72) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 126