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It has been found that highly prejudiced people tend to have a poorly internalized superego, rigid ego defenses with much use of projection and reaction-formation, and to be defensively concerned with morality and the seeking of external status and power as reassurance against feelings of inner weakness. The prejudice appears to involve an external symbolization of the prejudiced person's unconscious struggles to keep his repressed feelings 'in their place'. Relatively unprejudiced subjects tend to have more internalized values and less suppressive defenses; they are apt to be more concerned with seeking love, and are more often openly ambivalent.
Morrow studied a group of prisoners at San Quentin in order to determine whether any significant correlation existed between the underlying motivational structure of a crime and the democratic versus anti-democratic orientation. By using certain psychological tests, Morrow was able to separate the prejudiced from the unprejudiced criminal. He found the prejudiced criminals motivated by a need for some external proof of their toughness, strength, power and