Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
GORDON ALLPORTReasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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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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But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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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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An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.
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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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It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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