American - Psychologist | November 11, 1897 - October 9, 1967
No corner of the world is free from group scorn.
Gordon W. Allport
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It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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What is familiar tends to become a value.
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Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals.
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Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.
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The primary problem in the psychology of becoming is to account for the transformation by which the unsocialized infant becomes an adult with structured loves, hates, loyalties, and interests, capable of taking his place in a complexly ordered society.
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