Sustained motivation plus automatic control mechanisms can fully break the prejudice habit

Evidence

To the extent that these preand postconscious strategies are effective, over time they may enable people personally motivated to overcome prejudice to fully break the prejudice habit and achieve the type of true resolution (integration) of inner conflict envisioned by Allport. As anticipated by Allport, this process is likely to be a long one and certainly requires a major commitment among those for whom responding with prejudice is abhorrent. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2112

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reason’s goals can override emotional default via neural rewiring — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2333; Attitudes only strongly predict behavior under conditions of strong activation and perceived relevance — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 55