Abstract

Prejudice continues to remain one of the most persistent socio-psychological problems across cultures affecting interpersonal relations collective behavior and social harmony. Understanding why individuals develop prejudiced attitudes requires exploring the psychological conditions that shape their perceptions emotions and responses to people outside their own social group. This research paper investigates the complex relationship between prejudice and selected personality traits offering a multidisciplinary psychological analysis of how cognitive patterns emotional tendencies social conditioning and personality predispositions interact to produce biased judgments. The study draws from classical personality theories modern trait-based approaches social cognition research and contemporary psychological findings to examine traits such as authoritarianism dogmatism low openness to experience low agreeableness neurotic rigidity and socially learned inferiority-superiority complexes. These