Social Identity Theory

A topic within Social Psychology, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

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Paper1970

Experiments in Intergroup Discrimination

Henri Tajfel

Finds 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.

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Psychology · Social Psychology

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Essay1979

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.

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Experiments in Intergroup Discrimination

An Integrative Theory of Intergroup Conflict

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