Tajfel et al.
What year was the study conducted in?
What is 1971?
What year was the study conducted in?
What is 2005?
What is the importance of the Social Identity Theory in psychology?
What is it helps us understand the damage stereotypes can do and how prejudice can occur.
What was the study's aim?
What is Tajfel and colleagues were interest in how, and to what extend group membership is influential in behaviour and attitude change?
What soccer team fans were the in-group in the study?
What is Manchester United?
Define cohesiveness.
What is the degree to which group members are attracted to each other and motivated to stay in the group, fostering sense of unity and shared purpose?
What was the procedure used to split the groups up and then test intergroup bias?
What is minimal group paradigm (randomly assigning participants to groups based on trivial criteria)?
What were the pseudo participants instructed to do?
What is instructed to fall in front of fans?
How does the Social Identity Theory fit within the approach?
Emphasizes social context
Explains intergroup conflict
Links to cultural norms
What was the conclusion and what was the explanation?
What is the boys favoured their in-group and discriminated against the out-group (because they believed there was a reason they were grouped together)?
What was the control variation in the study?
What is a practical application of this theory?
What is understanding how people will make judgements based on group membership?
What is an evaluative point that challenge the results of this study?
What is the potential of financial gains impacting intergroup behaviour?
True or false: When the pseudo participant wore a neutral coloured shirt, there was a drastic increase in the number of fans that helped them.
What is false.
Why do people engage in in-group favoritism even when there is no direct benefit to them?
What is to strengthen their social identity and self-esteem?