Social Identity

Question 1

Henri Tajfel

Answer 1

Social identity theory

Question 2

Tajfel and Turner (1979)

Answer 2

2 aspects of identity
personal and social identity
If see group worse will have lower self esteem

Question 3

Tajfel (1981)

Answer 3

part of individual self concept arises from group

Question 4

Tajfel (1971)

Answer 4

minimal group paradigm
abstract paintings, groups meaningless
allocated more resources to own group

Question 5

Oakes and Truner (1980)

Answer 5

participants allowed to discriminate group has higher self-esteem

Question 6

Crocker-Schwartz (1985)

Answer 6

ppts with lower self-esteem showed greater discrimination

Question 7

Abrams (1982)

Answer 7

higher self -esteem leads to more group bias

Question 8

Rubin and Hewstone (1998)

Answer 8

most research focused on majority ethnic groups

minority groups less likely to show high self esteem through discrimination

Question 9

Cialdini (1976)

Answer 9

College football wins correlated with college insignia clothing the next day

Question 10

Reicher (1998)

Answer 10

social change when group determines situation unjust

Question 11

Ellemers (1993)

Answer 11

when group position illegitimate higher identification

Question 12

Turner (1987)

Answer 12

self-categorisation theory

Question 13

jetten (1997)

Answer 13

turn down personal and submit to group

prototypical members more likely to protect than peripheral

Question 14

Crisp (2006)

Answer 14

told Birmingham students merge with Aston

showed higher ingroup bias when told merge but only if highly identified