Over the years, there have been many attempts to understand and explain why people tend to think and feel negatively toward other groups, in essence, are prejudice. In the textbook Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class the Sociology of Group Conflict and Change Joseph Healey outlines some of the more widely accepted theories. Healey breaks these theories into two distinctive groups: Personality based approach to prejudice and Cultural based approach to prejudice.
One thought in the personality-based approach to prejudice is projection. Projection is when a person "sees in others characterist…
