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a verdict reached before the trial, then defended against all evidence.
means An opinion or judgment formed about someone or something in advance, usually unfavorable and not based on actual experience or reason.
from From Latin praejudicium — prae, 'before,' plus judicium, 'judgment' — literally 'a judging beforehand.' It started as a legal term for a preliminary ruling or a precedent, then drifted into the broader sense of a mind already made up, arriving in English through Old French prejudice.
- latin root
- means literally pre-judgment, deciding beforehand
- brain shortcut
- snap categorizing once helped survival, now misfires badly
- contact cure
- actual exposure to outgroups reliably reduces it
- implicit kind
- biases operate below conscious awareness
- austen's title
- originally called First Impressions before becoming Pride and Prejudice
for instance
redlining in chicago — 1930s-1960s banks denied mortgages to black families in specific neighborhoods
rwandan genocide — 1994 hutus killed 800,000 tutsis based on ethnic prejudice in 100 days