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 Category: “An accessible cluster of associated ideas which as a whole has the property of guiding daily adjustments.”³⁵

 Ethnic prejudice: “An antipathy based upon a faulty and inflexible generalization. It may be felt or expressed. It may be directed toward a group or as a whole, or toward an individual because he is a member of that group.”³⁶

 Group: “Any cluster of people who can use the term ‘we’ with the same significance.”³⁷

 Prejudice: “Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.”³⁸

 Projection: “Whenever, and in whatever way, a correct-appraisal of one’s own emotional life fails and gives way to an incorrect judgment of other people.”³⁹

 Stereotype: “An exaggerated belief associated with a category. Its function is to justify (rationalize) our conduct in relation to that category.”⁴⁰