Recategorizing at broader levels can reduce intergroup prejudice.
Evidence
Because categorization is the basis of prejudice, Allport argued that changing the way people conceived of category memberships held great promise for reducing prejudice. In particular, he proposed that shifting the focus from membership at a more differentiated level, such as racial groups, to a more inclusive level, such as national or human identity, could undermine the type of categorization that leads to prejudice between racial or ethnic groups. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 537
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
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- Recategorizing group membership at more inclusive levels can undermine prejudice (similarity 0.95)
- Recategorization to inclusive identities like shared humanity can reduce prejudice (similarity 0.90)
- Categorization is an unavoidable cognitive basis for prejudgment. (similarity 0.87)
- Categorization itself is not the problem; prejudice drives stereotypes, not vice versa. (similarity 0.86)
- Categorization inherently produces prejudgment that cannot be avoided (similarity 0.86)
- Categorization alone cannot produce prejudice without cultural justification (similarity 0.86)
- Allport grounded prejudice in categorization, identification, and intergroup contact (similarity 0.86)
- Prejudice is primary; categorization only serves it (similarity 0.86)
- Categorization processes facilitate the harm of prejudice (similarity 0.85)
- Categorization and identity processes will outlast the elimination of prejudice (similarity 0.85)
- Salient categorization during intergroup contact can breed anxiety rather than reduce prejudice. (similarity 0.85)
- Individual-difference and intergroup approaches to prejudice have remained disconnected since Allport. (similarity 0.85)
- Changing how people categorize others can reduce intergroup threat. (similarity 0.85)
- Categorization renders outgroups more homogeneous and ingroups more varied (similarity 0.85)
- Decategorization and recategorization strategies reduce bias sequentially rather than competitively (similarity 0.85)