PSYCH 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Henri Tajfel
5 Mar 2020
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If groups are working together toward a goal, then we see a reduction in prejudice: but as soon as this is over, we go back to the state of negative independence and re-hold our prejudice views. Tafjel argued that no, we are actually competing over self esteem needs. Tajfel: wanted to show that people will fight to enhance their social identity (and therefore their self esteem) conducted discrimination in a minimal groups paradigm. No positive distinctiveness unless participants do something to create a positive distinctiveness, group members had to do something they had to discriminate. We see for ingroup-ingroup and outgroup-outgroup allocations, participants are maximally fair for intergroup allocations: slide 12 graph the red line indicates discrimination. Lemyre and smith tried to check this through their study a study on biased allocations and se their hypothesis: allocations are the things that should alone raise one"s self esteem.
