Tajfel (1971)
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- Created on: 09-05-15 16:04
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- Tajfel (1971)
- Aims
- To see if simply putting people into two minimal groups without the existence of prejudice would be enough to create prejudice
- Wanted to research discrimination and not prejudice, he thought that discrimination was a bi-product of prejudice
- Discrimination is easier to measure as its observable
- Whether discrimination could be created from meaningless tasks
- MJP= maximum joint profit
- MIP= Maximum in-group profit
- MD= maximum difference
- Conclusions
- Prejudice and discrimination is very easy to trigger
- Groupness is stronger than fairness
- Evaluation
- Task lacks mundane realism
- Lacks ecological validity
- Could be seen that the pps were giving in to demand characteristics
- School boys divided into groups by adults so would automatically assume that there is competition
- People have argued that Tajfel had interpreted his results wrongly
- It was well controlled and thus, somewhat valid
- E.g no face to face interaction between groups
- Aims
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