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Social Identity Theory Evaluation
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Psychology (Social Identity Theory) Mind Map on Social Identity Theory Evaluation, created by pmfisher1996 on 12/04/2013.
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Social Identity Theory Evaluation
The theory has evidence from minimal group studies such as Tajfel (1970)
Which demonstrate that being part of a group is sufficient to lead to prejudice against people not within that group
Tajfel is a lab based experiment which suffers from low ecological validity as it is carried out in an artificial setting
It understimates the importance of individual differences, some people have a much greater tendency than others to favour in group over out group
depending on thier personality
The theory can explain wide ranges of real life phenomena ranging from support for football teams to racism
and can be applied to a wide range of social situations
e.g. football violence occurs because fans compare with other fans ( of other teams) to raise their own self esteem
Sherif's Robbers Cave study provides further evidence for SIT
In that 2 groups showed prejudice before competition was introduced and showed in group favouritsm
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