Project SherlockEst. Knowledge

Essay

1979

An Integrative Theory of Intergroup Conflict

Henri Tajfel & John C. Turner

Argues people derive part of their self-concept from group membership and are motivated to see their own group as favourably distinct from others, the theoretical statement built on the minimal-group findings.

No free copy is linked yet — expect to buy or borrow this one elsewhere.

Read these first

Not a difficulty warning — a route. These are in the library too.

Experiments in Intergroup DiscriminationHenri Tajfel, 1970Finds that dividing strangers into groups by a trivial, meaningless criterion is enough to make them favour their own group's members over the other's, locating the root of intergroup bias in mere categorisation itself.

Filed under Social Psychology in Psychology.