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  2. Prejudice - Wikipedia

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    One can be prejudiced against or have a preconceived notion about someone due to any characteristic they find to be unusual or undesirable. A few commonplace examples of prejudice are those based on someone's race, gender, nationality, social status, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation, and controversies may arise from any given topic.

  3. Allport's Scale - Wikipedia

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    Examples include the Cambodian genocide, the Final Solution in Nazi Germany, the Rwandan genocide, the Armenian genocide, and the genocide of the Hellenes. This scale should not be confused with the Religious Orientation Scale of Allport and Ross (1967), which is a measure of the maturity of an individual's religious conviction.

  4. Category:Prejudices - Wikipedia

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    Definition: Prejudice: an adverse pre-judgement or opinion formed beforehand without direct observation of things, people, or events. Navigation , for "types of" categories within a "parent category" : Category:Discrimination ; : Category:Prejudice and discrimination .

  5. Edinburgh University warns students not to be ‘snobs’ towards ...

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    Examples of prejudice given include comments about clothing and “lack of knowledge or regional accent”. An unnamed student who qualified under the policy is quoted in the guidance, ...

  6. Antilocution - Wikipedia

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    American psychologist Gordon Allport coined this term in his 1954 book, The Nature of Prejudice. [2] Antilocution is the first point on Allport's Scale, which can be used to measure the degree of bias or prejudice in a society. Allport's stages of prejudice are antilocution, avoidance, discrimination, physical attack, and extermination.

  7. Prejudice (legal term) - Wikipedia

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    Prejudice is a legal term with different meanings, which depend on whether it is used in criminal, civil, or common law. In legal context, prejudice differs from the more common use of the word and so the term has specific technical meanings. Two of the most common applications of the word are as part of the terms with prejudice and without ...

  8. Contact hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The basic rationale is that prejudice may be reduced as one learns more about a category of people. [1] Rothbart and John (1985) describe belief change through contact as "an example of the general cognitive process by which attributes of category members modify category attributes" (p. 82). [22]

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