Adorno and his associates concluded all of the following about prejudice EXCEPT
a. Prejudice is an attitude or set of attitudes that tends to be generalized to a wide variety of out-groups rather than a specific response based on negative experiences with members of a particular out-group.
b. There is a personality type (authoritarian personality) that tends to be associated with prejudice.
c. If a person is prejudiced against one out-group, he or she is usually not prejudiced against other out-groups
d. Conservatism and prejudice are not always linked.
ANS: c
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