... of prejudice is this of an antipathy based on faulty and inflexible generalization which may be felt or expressed towards a group or a person. (Allport 1954). According to Allport's view of prejudice, it consists of three main components: the cognitive reflecting beliefs about the targeted group/person, the affective (stereotypes) reflecting strong feelings about the targeted group/person, and the conative component reflecting intentions to behave in certain ways toward the targeted group/person. A more recent view of prejudice was proposed by Brown: "The holding of derogatory social attitude on cognitive beliefs, the expression of negative affect, or the display of hostile or discriminatory behaviour towards members of a group on account of their membership of that group" (Brown 1995) There have been many approaches and explanations of prejudice. One of the first ones to be proposed was related to personality. After World War II, researchers explained fascism, ethnocentrism, and anti-Semitism ...

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