In his book, "The Nature of Prejudice," Gordon W. Allport describes prejudice as a ladder with several rungs, or levels. As people “climb” up the ladder of prejudice, increasingly negative actions ...

Gordon W. Allport '19, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, died yesterday in Stillman Infirmary following an extended illness. He was 69 years old. Allport was world-famous as a leading ...

Harvard psychologist Gordon Allport was the godfather of research on the psychology of prejudice. His 1954 book The Nature of Prejudice is full of many insightful hypotheses about the ways in which we ...

Although President Trump has tempered efforts to brand COVID-19 the “Chinese virus,” he continues to allege that China caused the global pandemic. Recent claims suggest the original source of the ...

Where does prejudice come from? Not from ideology, say the authors of a new paper. Instead, prejudice stems from a deeper psychological need, associated with a particular way of thinking. People who ...

Prejudice is the formation of an opinion about something before you have all the facts. It usually involves unfavorable judgments about people (individually or collectively) because of race, ethnicity ...

Dr. Thomas F. Pettigrew was a major influence in my undergraduate training at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As a graduate student at Harvard University, he worked closely with one of the ...