Victims’ defenses against prejudice can protect rather than damage mental health

Evidence

An important component of repression as a strategy for handling conflict is that in deploying it, people fail to recognize their prejudices. According to Allport, repression is a protective rather than truly effective resolution of the conflict and leaves people vulnerable to responding with prejudice and, hence, inner conflict. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2092 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Segregation yields real psychological safety benefits that complicate any push to integrate — Miles Hewstone and Ed Cairns and Alberto Voci and Juergen Hamberger and Ulrike Niens, Intergroup Contact, Forgiveness, and…, 104; The mental-health harm depends on social meaning, not mere violence exposure; Some prejudice-induced defenses like ingroup solidarity protect mental health (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Some prejudice-induced defenses like ingroup solidarity protect mental health #exemplifies (0.92)
• Repression of prejudice is protective but leaves people vulnerable to later prejudiced responses #complicates (0.72) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2092