PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Floyd Henry Allport, Institutionalized Discrimination, Psychological Bulletin
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Historical events and circumstances can have more profound effects on thinking about prejudice than merely shifting interest to new research topics. Important historical circumstances may make fundamentally new and different questions about the nature of prejudice salient, while obscuring others. These historical circumstances generated an interest among scientists in delineating and explaining the inferiorities of backward" races. As a result race theories" dominated social scientific thinking about racial differences, and explained. Black inferiority" in terms of evolutionary backwardness, limited intellectual capacity, and even excess sexual drive. In 1925 an influential paper by thomas garth in the psychological bulletin reviewed 73 studies on the issue of race and intelligence, which he concluded seemed to indicate the mental superiority of the. These attitudes had their logical social policy expressions in segregation, exclusion, and institutionalized discrimination against these backward" peoples. In order to answer this question, psychologists shifted their attention to white racial attitudes.
