Prejudiced individuals misattribute their dislike to group attributes rather than vice versa.

Evidence

Campbell (1967) highlighted various factors that contribute to the “wrongfulness” of stereotypes. One of these, which he judged to be particularly important, is the tendency of the prejudiced individual to believe that it is the attributes of the group (i.e., stereotype content) that generate dislike, when in fact it is the dislike that generates the negative stereotypic beliefs about the group: The naive ingrouper perceives the different characteristics of the outgroup as causing his hostility (Ichheiser, 1949). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 841

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 841
• XREF: connects to: Stigler saw markets as producing wrong knowledge because they satisfy popular prejudice — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 120; People misreport which attribute influenced their judgments even about observable traits. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 95; Partisans massively overestimate disliked traits in the opposing party — Rachel Hartman et al., Interventions to Reduce Partisan…, 32