accurate for
some other reason, such as in hiring staff in order not to run afoul,
unintentionally, of Equal Employment Opportunity legal demands. But the
mere fact that it must be thought aboutâ€"planned in the case of the EEO
scenarioâ€"suggests that the inclination to stereotype is always with us. "A
different kind of thinking, involving effort against our simpler and less
controllable natures (our self-apparent tastes), is involved in going
beyond stereotyping. (Pratto, 1992, 184)
Pratto was reacting to an article by Robin Fox in the same journal,
Psychological Inquiry, in which Fox suggested th
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