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Positive distinctiveness and social discrimination: an old couple living in divorce.
- Source :
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European Journal of Social Psychology . Nov95, Vol. 25 Issue 6, p657-670. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 1995
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Abstract
- The paper highlights the relation between positive distinctiveness and social discrimination as key concepts in Social Identity Theory. The often replicated finding of mere categorization leading to in group favouritism and outgroup discrimination plays a major role in supporting the view that discrimination is functional for a positive social identity. The paper confronts the mere categorization effect with recent findings which throw severe doubts on its robustness. Particularly the failure to extrapolate categorization effects to intergroup behaviour involving aversive stimuli (the positive-negative-asymmetry of social discrimination) leads to the plea for further specifications of SIT and its validity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *OLDER people
*DIVORCE
*SOCIAL distance
*GROUP identity
*BEHAVIOR
*AVERSIVE stimuli
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00462772
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- European Journal of Social Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 12142185
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2420250605