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The Nature of Prejudice (book)  

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  • The shocking experience of the Holocaust stimulated a multitude of research programs with the objective of identifying and overcoming the causes of intolerance and hostility. Gordon W. Allport (1897–1967), who taught psychology at the Harvard University since 1924, wrote his book The Nature of Prejudice in this historical context. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Communication; Nature of Prejudice, the]

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