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The indirect or subtle forms of prejudice and discrimination continue to be largely misunderstood. To increase our knowledge on this front, the present review integrates two different approaches. The first one, based on the model of justification-suppression of prejudice (Crandall & Eshleman, 2003), examines the motivational processes of justification that facilitate the expression of prejudice. However, this model does not specify which information may be used as justification and which cognitive processes are at work in the transformation of information in order to justify prejudice. The second approach, based on research on stereotyping (Hilton & Fein, 1989), tackles the question of the nature of the information used in social judgments and brings to light the cognitive processes by which a priori “neutral” information acquires a meaning for the perceivers and allows them to justify their stereotype. In order to better understand subtler forms of discrimination, we propose a model of the motivational and cognitive processes of justification of prejudice which builds upon these two approaches.