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The important point, however, is that individuals try to maintain consistency between the features of the categories to which they belong and their evaluation of the actions that define each category. The detection of an inconsistency can be accompanied by an uncomfortable feeling of shame or guilt. A disloyal thought toward a friend can provoke guilt because of the inconsistency between the thought and the features that define "a good friend." Many college-educated women who are enjoying professional careers experience more inconsistency than their grandmothers ove the category "mother." Adults with parents who belonged to different religious categories are also vulnerable to the tension of inconsistency. J. D.Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye, had a Jewish father and a Catholie mother, and his daughter has described the uncertainty her father felt as an adolescent in the 1930s when American anti-Semitism was virulent. [Kogan, 139]
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