Young people often act like Carr’s participants who thought that prejudice was fixed. They seem determined to label older adults, based on very little information, as sexist, racist, homophobic, and hateful. Of course, they sometimes have a good reason for this. Young people in an adolescent predicament are often in a perpetual state of status threat detection, coming from the barrier of mistrust. Their sensitivity causes many young people to quickly sort the world into harmful/bad/unsafe people versus helpful/good/safe people to avoid further hurt. This barrier of mistrust can worsen the very
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