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| Minimal group: In psychology, a "minimal group" refers to a concept used in social identity theory. It involves arbitrary and seemingly insignificant criteria to categorize individuals into distinct groups. This categorization, despite being minimal, can lead to favoritism towards one's own group and discrimination against others. The concept demonstrates how easily social identities and group biases can be formed. See also Social Identity, Group behavior, Groupthink, Social Behavior, Social Psychology, Social Identity Theory._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Evolutionary Psychology on Minimal Group - Dictionary of Arguments
Haslam I 172 Minimal groups/behavioral economics: the minimal group paradigm and its findings have been used to argue for humans’ evolutionary tendency to favour ingroups and distrust outgroups (Dunbar et al., 2005)(1). >Minimal groups/Tajfel, >Social Identity Theory/Tajfel, >Group behavior/Tajfel. This takes us well beyond Tajfel’s original grounding of the minimal ingroup studies (and evidence of bias) in an appreciation of norms, social meaning, and a quest for positive group distinctiveness. 1. Dunbar, R., Barrett, K. and Lycett, J. (2005) Evolutionary Psychology. Oxford. One World. Russell Spears and Sabine Otten,“Discrimination. Revisiting Tajfel’s minimal group studies“, in: Joanne R. Smith and S. Alexander Haslam (eds.) 2017. Social Psychology. Revisiting the Classic studies. London: Sage Publications_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Evolutionary Psychology Haslam I S. Alexander Haslam Joanne R. Smith Social Psychology. Revisiting the Classic Studies London 2017 |
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