Tajfel - Social Categorisation & Intergroup Behaviour (Minimal Groups Study)
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- Created on: 02-04-14 14:42
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- TAJFEL - SOCIAL CATEGORISATION & INTERGROUP BEHAVIOUR
- AIM
- to test whether the simple act of grouping was enough to cause prejudice between two groups of very similar people
- This study is also known as the Minimal Groups Study
- PROCEDURE
- sample of school boys were given a fake art task to do
- allocated into two groups on the basis of this
- Klee group
- Kandinsky group
- grouping was purele random
- allocated into two groups on the basis of this
- rewards allocation task
- asked to reward points to two other boys (one from each group) at a time
- only information they were given was which group they were in
- sample of school boys were given a fake art task to do
- RESULTS
- boys typically awarded more points to members of their in-group
- shows strong in-group favouritism
- boys typically awarded more points to members of their in-group
- AIM
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