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3: Social Self
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- 1Describe the Robber's Cave experiment22 twelve-year old boys selected for a 3 week trip. Two buses picked up half of the boys each, the groups did not know about each other. The groups were encouraged to bond and give themselves a name.
3 phases of experiment:
1) In-group formation: playing around as a group
2) Intergroup friction: competing with the other group
3) Integration/friction reduction: cooperative superordinate goals
Final result: boys bonded as single group, and majority chose to travel home on mixed buses and share resources. - 2Define social identityThe part of an individual’s self-concept which derives from his knowledge of his membership of a social group(s), together with the value and emotional significance attached to that membership.
- 3Bias of in- and out-groupsPerceived in-group heterogeneity
Perceived out-group homogeneity - 4Describe minimal group paradigm and its effects on participantsMinimal group paradigm: used to study social identity.
Participants allocated to a group on the basis of a meaningless categorisation. Participants only know their own group membership. There is no relation or interaction between groups.
Results: participants give more money/points to members of their own group.
Demonstrates in-group favouritism and out-group discrimination.
Mirrors behaviour outside the lab. - 5Describe the social identity theoryOur self-esteem is affected by group membership, so we are motivated to be biased towards the group.
1)Categorisation: Defining ourselves and other people as belonging to specific social groups. Boots self-esteem.
2) Identification: identification with other members of the in-group.
2b) Assumptions: in-group similarity and out-group dissimilarity
3) Comparison: making direct comparisons between in-group and out-group, employing self-serving bias and attribution errors when doing so. Biases allow us to gain a positive self-evaluation from comparison. - 6Describe the self-categorisation theory1) Subordinate, Personal characteristics —> Me. Things that are unique about you as a person and that make you different from other members of the groups you belong to.
2) Intermediate, Group membership —> Social Identity. Consider yourself to have shared characteristics with other members of the same group.
3) Superordinate, Global membership —> Humanity. See yourself as being like other people and other people like you. Most despicable acts often described as “inhuman”.
Levels of Abstraction:
1) Superordinate salience: no in-group or out-group effects. See ourselves as all similar.
2) Intermediate salience: categorisation effects and in-group/out-group effects are produced.
3) Subordinate salience: No in-group/out-group effects. See ourselves as unique.
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