PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Group Dynamics, Henri Tajfel, Relative Deprivation
14 Mar 2018
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Definition of intergroup behaviour: whenever individuals belonging to one group interact, collectively or individually, with another group its members in terms of their group identification we have an instance of intergroup behaviour. (sherif, 1966, p. 12, dyadic level. Social cognition: categorization: categorization is one of the fundamental cognitive processes in human, categorization is the lumping together of objects and events into meaningful groupings (brewer & miller, 1996) Categorization: why do we categorize, to reduce complexity of the world, principle of least effort, human cognitive capacity is limited, categorization is an efficient way to deal with wide stimuli. Social categorization: natural categories vs. social categories, social categorization is classification of people into groups based on common attributes, major social categorizations are, gender, ethnicity, age. Category accentuation: after categories are formed, there is a tendency to exaggerate the difference between two categories, doise, deschamps, and meyer (1978)
