Prejudiced people avoid introspection and blame external forces

Evidence

Not all of the characteristics attributed to the authoritarian personality can be neatly fitted into the above construction but many can be; for example, the fact that the prejudiced person is anti-intraceptive. On the F Scale he agrees that there is too much prying into matters that ought to remain personal and private, that when one has a problem the best thing to do is not think about it and just keep busy. From the interviews it appears that he is not given to reflection or introspection. He does not strive for insight into his own psychological operations, he does not see their role in what happens to him. When things go wrong for the prejudiced person it is because of external forces. He is disposed to be “extrapunitive”—to blame others rather than himself. “She’s mean and inconsiderate and doesn’t give a darn about anyone else but herself.” — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 564

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the concept of ‘anti-intraceptiveness’ — aversion to examining one’s own psychological operations — and ‘extrapunitive’ blaming.
• XREF: Resonates with the ‘just-world’ reasoning and fundamental attribution error literature in social psychology. — connects to: Prejudiced individuals commonly report compunction alongside their expressed prejudice — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 691; Prejudice alone can drive endorsement of freedom-based justifications for rejecting bias accusations — Felix Danbold, Ivuoma N. Onyeador, and Miguel M. Unzueta, Dominant groups support digressive…, 36
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 564