Describe and evaluate two theories and two research studies that explain prejudice.

... Euan Brady Higher Psychology Describe and evaluate two theories and two research studies that explain prejudice. Prejudice is everywhere within our modern society and takes many recognisable forms. From the tendency to express acquired positive or negative attitudes to an object, having a prefixed opinion on a group in society or having prefixed actions to someone due to their membership of a certain group in society. Prejudice has many theories with which to explain its roots, and many experiments with which to assertain its dynamics. In 1950 in an attempt to explain a link between facism, racism and the authoritarian personality, entities which intertwined in Hitler's Germany, Adorno et al formed The Authoritarian Personality theory by which to explain prejudice. He stated that if a child goes through a childhood in which he or she is exposed to rigid discipline and conditional affection (in which the child is only allowed the affection of

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