Editing Prejudice (section)

{{Short description|Attitudes based on preconceived categories}}
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[[File:Mr-prejudice-1943.jpg|thumb|''Mr. Prejudice'', painted by [[Horace Pippin]] in 1943, depicts a personal view of race relations in the United States.]]
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'''Prejudice''' can be an [[affect (psychology)|affective]] feeling towards a person based on their perceived [[In-group and out-group|social group membership]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Definition of PREJUDICE |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prejudice |access-date=2021-09-21 |website=[[Merriam-Webster]] |language=en}}</ref> The word is often used to refer to a preconceived (usually unfavourable) evaluation or classification of another person based on that person's perceived personal characteristics, such as [[political affiliation]], [[sex]], [[gender]], [[gender identity]], [[belief]]s, [[Value (personal and cultural)|values]], [[social class]], [[friendship]], [[Ageing|age]], [[disability]], [[religion]], [[sexual orientation|sexuality]], [[Race (human classification)|race]], [[ethnicity]], [[language]], [[nationality]], [[culture]], [[complexion]], [[beauty]], [[height]], [[body weight]], [[job|occupation]], [[wealth]], [[education]], [[criminality]], [[Fan loyalty|sport-team affiliation]], [[Psychology of music preference|music tastes]] or other perceived characteristics.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bethlehem|first=Douglas W.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rI3wCQAAQBAJ&q=prejudice+psychology|title=A Social Psychology of Prejudice|date=2015-06-19|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-317-54855-3|language=en}}</ref>

The word "prejudice" can also refer to unfounded or [[pigeonholed]] beliefs<ref>{{Cite journal | doi= 10.1177/0165025407083670|title = Commentary: The Problems of Prejudice, Discrimination, and Exclusion| journal= International Journal of Behavioral Development| volume= 31| issue= 5| pages= 419–422 |year = 2007 |last1 = Turiel |first1 = Elliot |s2cid = 145744721}}</ref><ref>[[William James]] wrote: "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." [http://www.freemaninstitute.com/quotes.htm Quotable Quotes – Courtesy of The Freeman Institute.]</ref> and it may apply to "any unreasonable attitude that is unusually resistant to rational influence".<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Rosnow |first1= Ralph L. |title= Poultry and Prejudice |journal= Psychologist Today |date= March 1972 |volume= 5 |issue= 10 |pages= 53–6}}</ref> [[Gordon Allport]] defined prejudice as a "feeling, favorable or unfavorable, toward a person or thing, prior to, or not based on, actual experience".<ref>{{cite book|last= Allport|first= Gordon|title= The Nature of Prejudice|year= 1979|publisher= Perseus Books Publishing|isbn= 978-0-201-00179-2|page= 6}}</ref> [[Lene Auestad|Auestad]] (2015) defines prejudice as characterized by "symbolic transfer", transfer of a value-laden meaning content onto a socially-formed category and then on to individuals who are taken to belong to that category, resistance to change, and overgeneralization.<ref>
{{cite book
|last1= Auestad|first1= Lene|title= Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice
|date= 2015|publisher= Karnac|location= London|isbn= 9781782201397
|pages= xxi–xxii|edition= 1
|url= http://www.karnacbooks.com/product/respect-plurality-and-prejudice-a-psychoanalytical-and-philosophical-enquiry-into-the-dynamics-of-social-exclusion-and-discrimination/35283/?MATCH=1
}}
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The [[United Nations]] Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility has highlighted research considering prejudice as a [[International security | global security]] threat due to its use in [[scapegoating]] some populations and inciting others to commit [[violence | violent acts]] towards them and how this can endanger individuals, countries, and the international community.<ref>{{cite web | last=Bello | first=Valeria | title=Why Prejudice is a Global Security Threat | website=UNU-GCM: United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility | date=2014 | url=https://gcm.unu.edu/publications/articles/why-prejudice-is-a-global-security-threat.html}}</ref>