Role incongruity supplies raw material that motivated reasoning then exploits

Evidence

However, stereotypes are not invented from whole cloth to defend people from personal inadequacies or protect their own groups’ privileges. Instead, the processes of role incongruity provide the basic material that then enables motivated reasoning in defense of oneself or one’s group. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 209

Categorization

• XREF: Refines Allport’s motivational account (anxiety/guilt driven prejudice) by grounding it in role incongruity, relevant to the vault’s reassessment thread.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 209