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Critically discuss the psychological explanations of prejudice. To what extent have the attempts to reduce prejudice and discrimination been successful?
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... Critically discuss the psychological explanations of prejudice. To what extent have the attempts to reduce prejudice and discrimination been successful? Gordon Allport described prejudice as "aversive or hostile attitude toward a person who belongs to a group, simply because he belongs to that group, and is therefore presumed to have the objectionable qualities ascribed to that group". Prejudice is assuming things about a person putting them into a group. The aim of this essay is discuss the attempts to reduce prejudice and explain how successful they have been. In this essay, it is prejudice in the form of racism and prejudice against homosexuals that I will use It is important that we know what discrimination means. Discrimination is very similar to prejudice, rather than just being a thought or opinion on something, discrimination is the thoughts from being prejudice influencing a person's behaviour in a negative way. There are many explanations of prejudice
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