The cognitive revolution replaced drive-based explanations of prejudice with normal categorization processes

Evidence

Both fell victim to methodological and theoretical critiques, as well as a distaste for Freudian concepts concerning drives, irrationality, and defense mechanisms that accompanied the cognitive revolution in psychology (which instead of­ fered an emphasis on stereotyping as a consequence of normal cognitive pro­ cesses of categorization). — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 736

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s inclusion-need/small-subgroup literature, where stereotyping is likewise treated as ordinary categorization rather than pathology. — connects to: Social categorization is a normal, inevitable mental process underlying prejudice — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 107; Allport framed prejudice as a byproduct of normally functional cognition — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 143; Prejudice arises from normal cognition, not abnormal pathology — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 282 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Social categorization is a normal, inevitable mental process underlying prejudice #corroborates (0.95) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 107
• Prejudice arises from normal cognition, not abnormal pathology #corroborates (0.90) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 282
• Allport framed prejudice as a byproduct of normally functional cognition #corroborates (0.85) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 143
• Cognitive approaches to prejudice pushed out the unconscious and motivation after 1954 #expands (0.85)