Prejudice victims’ personality orientation predicts whether their defenses are outward or inward

Evidence

In particular, he emphasized targets’ personality as the driving force behind reactions to prejudice in his suggestion that extropunitive and intropunitive people would respond to prejudice differently. He hypothesized that people who tend to be “extropunitive” (i.e., who characteristically attribute the cause of personal events to things outside of themselves) will likely adopt outwardly focused defenses (e.g., aggression against the outgroup), whereas people who characteristically tend to be “intropunitive” (i.e., who attribute responsibility for events to themselves) will likely adopt inwardly focused defenses (e.g., denial of membership, self-hate, and ingroup aggression). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 929

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the extropunitive/intropunitive taxonomy as Allport’s core framework for how targets respond to prejudice.
• XREF: connects to: the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”