SOP 3004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Fundamental Attribution Error, Social Identity Theory, In-Group Favoritism
28 Jul 2016
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Social identity theory: categorizing: we have a natural tendency to categorize people. Ingroup bias: we perceive our own group more favorably or better than outgroups. Research: minimal group paradigm: setting in which you assign people to a group ex. Study people told to estimate number of dots on slides. Overestimators. boys then put into individual rooms, dont know who the underestimators or overestimators are. However boys still systematically assign more points (for prizes) to people in their group than outgroup. Conclusion: people favored their own group even without knowing anyone. also, they thought they were doing this. They weren"t even aware oftheir bias: people see members of their own group as better then other. Better than average affect. ex. study can allocate your group and other group different number of points. You can either maximize your inggroups points or maximize ingroup advantage. Conclusion: most people maximize ingroup advantage: results of ingroup bias, outgroup homogeneity.
