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Prejudice is negative of a group and its individual members. The beliefs supporting prejudice are called , and they are often inaccurate and resistant to new information.
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Discrimination is unjustifiable negative toward a group. The terms "racism" and " " refer to institutional practices that discriminate.
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Survey research suggests that racial prejudice in the United States has since the early 1940s. Prejudice still exists, surfacing when a person thinks it is to express it. The phenomenon of greatest prejudice in the most social realms seems universal.
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While no longer blatant, racial prejudice still exists in forms and is evident from experiments which have assessed people's actual toward Blacks and Whites. Prejudice operates largely as an , unintended response.
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While strong stereotypes still exist, prejudice toward women has . However, as is true of racial prejudice, gender prejudice still lives. Curiously, most women feeling personally discriminated against.





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