PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Social identity theory developed from a series of studies, frequently called minimal-group studies, conducted by the British social psychologist Henri Tajfel and his colleagues in the early 1970s.

Detailed explanation-2: -Social Identity Theory (SIT; Tajfel, 1978; Tajfel & Turner, 1979) begins with the premise that individuals define their own identities with regard to social groups and that such identifications work to protect and bolster self-identity.

Detailed explanation-3: -This process of favoring one’s in-group happens in three stages: social categorization, social identification, and social comparison.