Gordon Allport's The Nature Of Prejudice

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In demonstration of these processes, Banaji and Greenwaled quote the words “orderly living” (Lindinsky 614) from a book title “The Nature of Prejudice” by Gordon Allport, to give reasoning behind their usage of categories through four main feats while showing the undemanding ability the mind has. In feat one, the authors utilizes a chart with many dimensions of a car such as the make, model year and type, to show how a visual aid can arrange an array of series together when piecing a humans dimensions of race, age, sex, religion and so forth. Feat two introduces the term “Homo Catergories” which refers to the mental categories that focuses on the columns of the dimensional chart used in feat one (Lindinsky 613). In order to conceive what type

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