The nature ofThe Nature of Prejudice

‘I'm happy to own my implicit biases’: Public encounters with the implicit association test

“…For some, the IAT only measures automatic associations (e.g., Rooth, ), or preferences (e.g., Howell & Ratliff, ) that might predict things like discriminatory behaviour, while others have used it as a direct measure of implicit stereotypes and prejudice (e.g., Rudman, Ashmore, & Gary, ). Rather than view this variation as evidence of widespread misinterpretation of the IAT and implicit bias, we regard this as part of ongoing historical contestation over the nature and meaning of prejudice as a social, psychological and moral problem (Cherry, ; Goodman & Rowe, ; Wetherell, ).…”

How social was personality? The Allports' ?connection? of social and personality psychology

“…These sources also reveal, however, that rather than representing a novel approach, Floyd Allport's treatment of personality continued a tradition established by earlier social psychologists in sociology (as the third view suggests) and also those in psychology. Although Gordon Allport's interest in personality is evident in his work on attitudes (e.g., 1935; see also Cherry, 2000) and in the emphasis on subjective experience in his definition of social psychology (G. W. Allport, 1954; see also Lubek & Apfelbaum, 2000), he insisted until the end of his career on the distinction between personality and social psychology. 39 Gordon Allport's "treatment of the individual transcendent" (Craik, 1993, p. 9) and his attempt to differentiate the psychological study of personality from the study of personality in other disciplines led to his efforts to separate the new field from social psychology and reinforced existing tendencies in psychology to detach the individual from social and cultural contexts.…”

“…. Indeed, Allport was actively involved with the "culture and personality" movement that occupied scholars from several fields in the 1930s and 1940s (see, e.g., G. W. Allport, Murphy, & May, 1937) and had "an alert interest in social problems" that was not revealed in his text (Stagner, 1938, p. 220; see also Cherry, 2000). From Allport one would scarcely learn that there are psychosocial mechanisms of personality integration quite as important as the purely psychological" (p. 409).…”

Whig and Anti-Whig histories? And other curiosities of social psychology

“…Instead I see it as a set of rivulets, some of them stagnating, dammed up, or evaporating (cf. Cherry, 2000), and others swept up in the larger stream originating elsewhere, if still maintaining a more or less distinctive coloration. In order to chart the intricacies of this process, it will be necessary to provide a much closer account of the organizational structure and developments of the field, the distribution of positions of power and gate keeping, such as editors, reviewers, officials at funding agencies, and their interpersonal networking.…”