References Flashcards
Tajfel (1969)
Categorisation serves to simplify and order our social/physical environment (deal efficiently)
Ferguson & Kelley (1964)
prejudice may continue in the absence of competition
Dominant perspective…Campbell (1965)
roots of prejudice: rational group conflict (i.e. scarce resources)
Sherif (1966) ‘summer camp studies’ series of field experiments
Negative interdependence (betw. two groups) would lead to stronger bias/discrimination than positive interdependence (superordinate goal)
Brewer (1979) Situational factors…
affect indirectly (salience of distinctions between ingroup and outgroup
Diehl (1989)
greater discrimination between more similar groups
Belief congruence principle (disproven)
Rokeach, Smith & Evans (1960): prejudice due to belief dissimilarity
New theoretical explanations
emphasise the cognitive processes with which we structure, simplify and give value to our group
Turner (1975)
SIT: intergroup comparison process, strive for positive group distinctiveness
Spears, Jetten, Scheepers & Cihangir (2009)
discrimination: enhance group distinictiveness (meaning and value)
new members among the most partisan towards outgroup
Noel, Wann & Branscombe (1995)
minimal groups show more ingroup bias than meaningful groups
Spears, Jetten, Scheepers & Cihangir (2002)
Bornstein et al. (1993)
Matrices fail to provide full range of allocation strategies (nuance; ambiguously measured fairness)
Brewer (1979) fairness
tendency for ingroup bias balanced with attempts at fairness
Mummendey & Otten (1998)
generalisability? focus on +ve resources