Rejecting one outgroup predicts rejecting all outgroups, marking prejudice as a personality trait

Evidence

Allport therefore concluded: “One of the facts of which we are most certain is that people who reject one out-group will tend to reject other out-groups. If a person is anti-Jewish, he is likely to be anti-Catholic, anti- Negro, anti any out-group” (1954/1979, p. 68). He also went on to assert that this “generality of prejudice” constituted a strong argument for saying that “prejudice is basically a trait of personality” (1954/1979, p. 73; italics in the original). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2427

Categorization

• XREF: This is the core generality-of-prejudice inference that the vault’s Allport reassessment thread is organized around. — connects to: Rejecting femininity cannot yield neutrality; every rejection enacts a positive position — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1921; Group prejudice links to general personality traits rather than to psychiatric illness. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1833
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2427