CATHERINE A. COTTRELL and DOLORES ALBARRACÍN
Department of Psychology
University of Florida

A Tribute to Allport: Surveying the Last 50 Years of Research on Prejudice

On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years After Allport.
Edited by John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, and Laurie A. Rudman. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. 488 pp. Paper, $46.95.

"There is no debate that Gordon W. Allport's (1954/1979) The Nature of Prejudice is the foundational work for the social psychology of prejudice." We wholeheartedly agree with this opening sentence (p. 1) of On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years After Allport, edited by John Dovidio, Peter Glick, and Laurie Rudman. Gordon Allport's seminal work did indeed guide much of the social psychological research on prejudice throughout the last 50 years. And in a fitting tribute to Allport's contributions, this follow-up volume aims to review that substantial body of research and outline an agenda for the future of research on prejudice.