Fairness or discrimination in intergroup behaviour? a reply to Branthwaite, Doyle and Lightbown

Abstract

Branth waite, Doyle and Lightbown ( I 979)

Minimal majorities and minorities

“…Indeed, MD (on MIP + MJP) was the most influential strategy for this group (see Turner, 1980). Also in support of the usual minimal group findings, results showed that the pull of MD on MIP + MJP was significant in all conditions except for the salient equal group subjects who, contrary to prediction, were overwhelmingly fair.…”

Power and status differentials in minority and majority group relations

“…showed that all subjects had a tendency to view parity rather than discrimination as the more socially desirable strategy to adopt in the study (Turner, 1980;Bourhis, 1985, 1987). Furthermore, all subjects felt that they themselves along with other ingroup members had behaved in a mom socially desirable manner (more parity, less discrimination) than did outgroup members, thus reflecting a group serving bias in their patterns of intergroup attributions (cf.…”

Minimal group situations and intergroup discrimination: Comments on the paper by Aschenbrenner and schaefer

“…(19791 who present mean rank scores obtained from several different matrices (Table 1 in Branthwaite et af., 1979), but it is clear that they also wish to make the same objection to 'pull' scores that have been reported in the literature in recent years (e.g. Turner, 1975aTurner, , 1980Turner et af., 1979).…”

“…(A and S) have recently added their comments to the controversy in this Journal (Branthwaite, 1980;Branthwaite et al, 1979;Hyland, 1979;Turner, 1980) about the relative importance of fairness and intergroup discrimination in subjects' responses in experiments using the minimal group situation. But they have done more in their paper.…”