A social-psychological phenomenon involving a generalized belief about, or a biased treatment of, people based on their membership in a social category, including named forms of prejudice and discrimination and the psychological processes, such as denying someone's full humanity or treating a person as an object, that make biased treatment easier to sustain. This group gathers the stereotyping and prejudice phenomena recorded for this atlas, covering documented biases tied to race, gender, age and other social categories, along with related concepts describing how a targeted group or person is diminished in the eyes of others.
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Originating WorkGordon Allport, The Nature of Prejudice (1954) 1 Browse By
Stereotyping And Prejudice
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1. Wikipedia: The Nature of Prejudice
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The Nature of Prejudice is a 1954 social psychology book by American psychologist Gordon Allport, on the topic of prejudice.
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