THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
SOCIAL THEORY
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Question
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Trivial group differences are created artificially to investigate the effects of social categorization on intergroup discrimination
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A group with which a person does not identify as a member
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An individual’s motivation to show that an in-groups is preferable to an out-group
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Behaviour that creates disadvantages for the out-group
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Detailed explanation-1: -The ‘minimal group paradigm’ is an experimental method in which people are assigned to arbitrary groups, and then required to allocate rewards to members of their group or another group.
Detailed explanation-2: -The minimal group paradigm is a procedure that researchers use to create new social groups in the laboratory. The goal is to categorize individuals into groups based on minimal criteria that are relatively trivial or arbitrary.
Detailed explanation-3: -1. a group lacking interdependence, group cohesion, structure, and other characteristics typically found in social groups. An example is a group of people disembarking from a bus.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tajfel’s (1970) minimal group paradigm (MGP) research suggests that social categorization is a sufficient antecedent of ingroup-favoring discrimination.