Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
GORDON ALLPORT
And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume … that we really know the score…. [But] this is not an easy assignment.
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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”
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Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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The dog [in Pavlov’s experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.
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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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