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

Social identity and intergroup evaluative bias: Realistic categories and domain specific self-esteem in a conflict setting

“…S c h i h a n & Wicklund, 1992). One of the more important criticisms in terms of the present study, relates to an assertion put forward by Brown, Tajfel and Turner (1980). These authors state that they 'fully agree that the minimal group paradigm is artificial' (Brown, Tajfel, & Turner, 1980, p. 41).…”

Minimal majorities and minorities

“…For instance, Billig and Tajfel (1973) found that subjects showed discrimination even though they were explicitly and visibly assigned to their groups by a random toss of a coin. These 'minimal group' effects have been subsequently replicated by a number of other investigators using subjects of different ages, sexes and nationalities on a number of different dependent measures (see Brown, Tajfel and Turner, 1980;Turner, 1981 for recent reviews). Thus, the simple categorization of people into groups seems sufficient to reliably induce intergroup discrimination.…”

Consumer acculturation theory: (crossing) conceptual boundaries

“…Philosophy (Sartre 1969), social identity theory (Brown, Tajfel, and Turner 1980;Tajfel and Turner 1986;Turner, Brown and Tajfel 1979), acculturation psychology (Berry 2001;Leong 2008), sociology (Nagel 1994), and consumer research (Avery 2007;Kates 2004;Schouten and McAlexander 1995;Zaltman 2000) have long established the idea that human identity can only be constructed in relation to a social environment. Sartre (1969), for instance, generally maintained that to fully realize all structures of their being, humans depend on observations of and interactions with other humans.…”