Explain The Various Forms Of Prejudice

In contemporary society, there are various forms of prejudice and discrimination. The three most common forms of prejudice include racial prejudice, gender prejudice, and LGBT prejudice. Prejudice is a negative preconceived judgment of individuals or groups formed with insufficient knowledge and inaccurate information. Prejudice is present in many ways, and it often includes discriminatory behaviors and stereotypic evaluations derived from social, cultural, or personal biases. Racial prejudice is a negative attitude directed towards a specific race or ethnicity. This prejudice harms society and individuals by perpetuating negative behaviors that impact everyday life. Discrimination is one of the many negative behaviors derived from racial prejudice.
Explicit attitudes and implicit attitudes differ because explicit attitudes are conscious, while implicit attitudes are unconscious. Different explicit and implicit attitudes can lead to racial prejudice when implicit biases contradict explicit values. For example, an individual can be explicitly against participating in racial prejudice because of their values but still participate in prejudicial attitudes because of their implicit and unconscious biases. If individuals enhance their social cognition by becoming aware of their unconscious participation in racial prejudice, they will be able to prevent future engagement in prejudice. Individuals will be able to stop themselves from future engagement in prejudice by practicing aligning their implicit attitudes to their explicit values. Enhancement of social cognition would effectively help reduce prejudice in society because individuals would no longer contribute to any form of racial prejudice. Individuals should manage social beliefs and judgments to help reduce racial prejudice and discrimination in our society. Social beliefs and judgments consist of various concepts; one of the concepts is intuitive