PSYC 363 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Henri Tajfel, Minimal Group Paradigm, In-Group Favoritism
4 Oct 2018
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The study of how our behavior, thoughts and feelings are influenced by the groups we belong to and how people from different groups relate to one another. But it is only one part of the story. The evolving status of people who use drugs. Can prejudice and discrimination exist in the absence of. Sherif showed how intergroup competition could transform the best adjusted of boys into what seemed like wicked, disturbed, vicious bunches of youngsters (boys camp studies) (intergroup comp create hostility) Group categorization is necessary and sufficient to produce ingroup favoritism. The act of mere categorization (as the iv) resulted in an expression of ingroup favoritism - participants were inclined to maximize ingroup profit, rather than opting for either maximum fairness or maximum joint profit. Furthermore, in some versions of the paradigm, categorization also resulted in outgroup discrimination - participants were inclined to maximize group difference even at the expense of maximizing ingroup profit.
