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Psychology
give an example of individual
and interpersonal
prejudice.

and how might prejudices occur at intergroup levels

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Prejudices, negative or positive, pre-judgmental decision-making, interpersonal prejudice

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Prejudices can be both, negative or positive, that is, being in favor or not in favor of something or a person, group, identity, a concept, object or event. Prejudices bias a person's judgment about the target of the prejudice. Many times, before knowing something first ...

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