ISS 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Muzafer Sherif, Entrust

• School: MSU
• Department: Integrative Studies Social Sci
• Course: ISS 215
• Professor: J. Cesario

Document Summary

The ingroup/outgroup distinction is fundamental to the human mind. Experiments show that mere categorization to any group may be sufficient to create ingroup/outgroup bias. Participants assigned to one of two groups. The assignment of people to groups based on an arbitrary categorization. Outcome measure that allows for discrimination against outgroup/favoring the ingroup. Mere categorization of people into us vs. them . leads people to value other ingroup members and evaluate group members. value other ingroup members and devalue outgroup memberswe are better than you. You"re going to distribute money to your group and the outgroup. to your group, to outgroup. to your group, to outgroup. Option a makes you the best, option b gives you the maximum differential. Experiments show that the mere categorization of us vs. them may be sufficient to: Entrust more with money in trust games. Redefine ingroups and outgroups in terms of shared goal or value.