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This theoretical examination of prejudice relies on an exhaustive methodological review of earlier studies from a range of disciplines. Allport regularly pulls on interdisciplinary sources, such as Journal of Personality, Fortune (the magazine), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Journal of Social Psychology, Journal of Educational Sociology, and Public Opinion Quarterly. He moves through masses of research by providing specifics of studies, by using multiple examples to illuminate a particular facet of prejudice, and by summarizing the contributions of several researchers. For example, in Chapter 16 of The Nature of Prejudice, on the effect of contact among groups, he provides several tables from other studies, such as “Opinion of U.S. Soldiers Regarding Germans as Related to the Frequency of Their Contact with German Civilians,” from the book The American Soldier (1949); “Percentage of Respondents Giving Indicated Reasons for Wanting to Exclude Negroes from Their Neighborhood,” from the unpublished work Residential Contact as a Determinant of Attitudes Toward Negroes (1950); and “Are They (the Negro People in the Project) Pretty Much the Same as the White People Who Live Here or Are They Different?” from Interracial Housing: A Psychological Evaluation of a Social Experiment (1951). Allport also relies on interviews or excerpts from first-person historical accounts. This use of supportive data from a range of studies and disciplines is typical of the methods employed by Allport throughout the book. Although Allport’s theory does not rely on primary research, the range and rigor of sources used to illuminate the multiple facets of prejudice are impressive and invaluable for attaining a broad framework of prejudice.