Tajfel

Question 1

What is the rationale for Tajfel’s study?

Answer 1

What are the minimum conditions for groups to display in-group favouritism and ethnocentrism?

Is negative interdependence over scarce resources necessary to elicit discrimination?

Question 2

What was phase 1 of the study?

Answer 2

Categorisation based on arbitrary criterion

Question 3

What was phase 2 of the study?

Answer 3

The matrix - Ps given booklets of matrices and told their task was to assign random rewards to anonymous members of their group

Question 4

What did the results show?

Answer 4

Across a range of studies, boys adopt a strategy which is a compromise between fairness and maximum differentiation in favour of the ingroup

Question 5

How was this study interpreted?

Answer 5

Relative group gain more important than absolute group gain and maximum overall gain, i.e. doing better than them is more important than doing well per se

Question 6

What can we conclude from this study?

Answer 6

Social categorisation is necessary to create intergroup discrimination/ in-group favouritism

Question 7

What is controversial with this experiment?

Answer 7

Generic competitive norm - where does it come from?
Evidence points to a fairness norm rather than GCN

Question 8

What is Positive Distinctiveness?

Answer 8

Differentiating the in-group from a relevant comparison group on valued dimensions