ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the hypotheses and conclusions educed and justified in this book. People tend to accept as logically valid those arguments whose conclusions reflect their prejudices. The ethnic prejudice, particularly in relatively well educated people, is explained by the theory of the authoritarian personality. Authoritarians have many impulses, desires, feeling, traits, ideas, because of the rigid and harsh socialization they underwent as children, are unacceptable to themselves. The two interacting types of prejudice: one is based on personality structure, the other is based on misinformation and the need to keep cognitive load light. Prejudices can be self-fulfilling: belief that a person has certain characteristics or attitudes may itself lead to evidence for that belief. The social and demographic differences between the sexes in modern societies, there is no convincing evidence for a pervasive prejudice against women's work in supposedly sex-incongruent areas. Ethnic prejudice and discrimination are commonly occurring features of British and American society.
