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Teaching Students about In-Group Favoritism and the Minimal Groups Paradigm
- Source :
- Teaching of Psychology. 30:127-130
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2003.
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Abstract
- Research on minimal groups demonstrates that arbitrarily creating 2 groups leads to the development of in-group favoritism. Experiments using the minimal groups paradigm show students how easily in-group biases can be created simply by categorizing others. This article describes an in-class activity that demonstrates the power of categorization. Students completed a minimal groups experiment either before or after viewing the video A Class Divided. Regardless of when they viewed the video, students rated their arbitrarily assigned in-group more positively and less negatively than their out-group. These findings spurred lively discussion about the possible relation among categorization, discrimination, and prejudice. Students enjoyed the activity and indicated that it was a valuable technique for demonstrating in-group bias.
- Subjects :
- Class (computer programming)
Social discrimination
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Teaching method
05 social sciences
050301 education
050109 social psychology
Education
Categorization
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
In-group favoritism
Psychology
Prejudice
0503 education
Social psychology
General Psychology
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Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15328023 and 00986283
- Volume :
- 30
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Teaching of Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........920194398a3e72569a747b9dfc3f295c
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15328023top3002_10