prejudice
Sign in to savethumb|Mr. Prejudice, painted by Horace Pippin in 1943, depicts a personal view of race relations in the United States. Prejudice can be an affective feeling towards a person based on their perceived social group membership. The word is often used to refer to a preconceived (usually unfavourable) evaluation or classification of another person based on that person's perceived personal characteristics, such as sex, gender, gender identity, beliefs, values, social class, friendship, age, disability, religion, sexuality, race, ethnicity, language, nationality, culture, complexion, beauty, height, b
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Prejudice is a preconceived, usually unfavorable judgment or feeling toward a person based on their perceived membership in a social group, such as their race, religion, gender, or other personal characteristics. It matters because these biased evaluations can influence how people treat one another and shape social relations.
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24 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Historical approaches
- Contemporary theories and empirical findings
- Evolutionary psychology
- Problems with psychological models
- Types of prejudice
- Gender identity
- Sexism
- Nationalism
- Classism
- Sexual discrimination
- Racism
- Scientific racism
- Religious discrimination
- Linguistic discrimination
- Neurological discrimination
- High-functioning
- Multiculturalism
- Reducing prejudice
- Contact hypothesis
- Jigsaw (teaching technique)
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|Mr. Prejudice, painted by Horace Pippin in 1943, depicts a personal view of race relations in the United States. Prejudice can be an affective feeling towards a person based on their perceived social group membership. The word is often used to refer to a preconceived (usually unfavourable) evaluation or classification of another person based on that person's perceived personal characteristics, such as sex, gender, gender identity, beliefs, values, social class, friendship, age, disability, religion, sexuality, race, ethnicity, language, nationality, culture, complexion, beauty, height, body weight, occupation, wealth, education, criminality, sport-team affiliation, music tastes or other perceived characteristics.
The word "prejudice" can also refer to unfounded or pigeonholed beliefs and it may apply to "any unreasonable attitude that is unusually resistant to rational influence". Gordon Allport defined prejudice as a "feeling, favorable or unfavorable, toward a person or thing, prior to, or not based on, actual experience". Auestad (2015) defines prejudice as characterized by "symbolic transfer", transfer of a value-laden meaning content onto a socially-formed category and then on to individuals who are taken to belong to that category, resistance to change, and overgeneralization.