Shared knowledge of prejudice grants social permission to express bias

Evidence

Social sharing among ingroup members – gossip, rumor, opinions, stories, media – contribute to consensus in stereotyped beliefs and related prejudices. The most easily communicated traits constitute the core of most stable stereotypes (Schaller & Conway, 2001). The knowledge that their prejudices and stereotypes are shared gives people social permission to express their biases, reinforcing their own and other people’s stereotypes and prejudice. These prejudiced communications demonstrate the explicitly social shared understandings that underlie normal prejudice. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 331

Social sharing among ingroup members – gossip, rumor, opinions, stories, media – contribute to consensus in stereotyped beliefs and related prejudices. The most easily communicated traits constitute the core of most stable stereotypes (Schaller & Conway, 2001). The knowledge that their prejudices and stereotypes are shared gives people social permission to express their biases, reinforcing their own and other people’s stereotypes and prejudice. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 331

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the social-cognitive work on consensus and stereotype communication; also links to the ingroup/outgroup chapters referenced (Gaertner & Dovidio). — connects to: Dog whistles activate latent racial prejudice while evading egalitarian norms — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 5; The internet lets like-minded communities confirm prejudices instead of confronting difference — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 158; 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
• SEED: Angle: ‘the permission structure of prejudice’ — how knowing others share your bias lowers the psychological cost of expressing it.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 331; John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 331