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Social Identity Theory

Social identity theory explains how people derive part of their self-concept from the groups they belong to, and how this drives favoritism toward in-groups and bias against out-groups. You will learn why group membership alone, without any real conflict of interest, is enough to produce biased judgments.

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Tajfel's Minimal Group Experiments: Bias Without Real Conflict

Explains Tajfel's foundational experiments showing that mere group categorization, with no real conflict of interest, produces in-group favoritism and out-group bias.