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Social Psychologist Gordon Allport Referred to Stereotyping as "The Law

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Social psychologist Gordon Allport referred to stereotyping as "the law of least effort." By this he meant that


A) stereotyping is a way to simplify a complex world.
B) people are cognitively lazy.
C) negative stereotypes are motivated, but positive stereotypes are not.
D) it takes a tremendous amount of effort to abandon our stereotypes.
E) lazy people tend to hold the most stereotypes.

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