Stereotypes often rationalize preexisting emotions toward outgroups

Evidence

However, as Allport claimed, stereotypes can also emerge as rationalizations, constructed after the fact to justify the emotions that one experiences toward a group. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2287

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the contact-theory reassessment: challenges the assumption that stereotypes causally precede emotions, supporting the reverse causal direction. — connects to: Specific stereotype combinations elicit distinct prejudiced emotions toward out-groups. — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 15; Envied out-groups draw low-warmth stereotypes that rationalize their exclusion — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 32; Stereotypes and identification precede threats, whose attitude effects run through emotions. — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup…, 149