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As stereotypes stick and prejudice deepens, we don’t just identify with our own group; we disidentify with our adversaries, coming to define who we are by what we’re not.
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124 |
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When people hold prejudice toward a rival group, they’re often willing to do whatever it takes to elevate their own group and undermine their rivals – even if it means doing harm or doing wrong.
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124 |
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In… studies… interacting with members of another group reduced prejudice in 94 percent of the cases. Although intergroup communication isn’t a panacea, that is a staggering statistic.
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139 |
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Blind spots enhance our pride and activate our prejudices.
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061 |
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Thanks to our ego-preserving blind spots, we cannot possibly have a prejudice, which is an irrational or mean-spirited feeling about all members of another group.
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079 |
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Prejudices emerge from the disposition of the human mind to perceive and process information in categories.
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081 |
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Once people have a prejudice, just as once they have a political ideology, they do not easily drop it, even if the evidence indisputably contradicts a core justification for it.
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084 |
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Prejudice justifies ill treatment we inflict on others, and we want to inflict ill treatment on others because we don’t like them. And why don’t we like them?… Because we need to feel we are better than somebody.
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091 |
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Even the most brilliant executive is human and thus prone to mistakes and prejudices.
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374 |
