Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
GORDON ALLPORTAnd sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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We cannot know the young child’s personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed.
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The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)
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