PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Cognitive Dissonance, Henri Tajfel, Metatheory
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Psyc12- chapter 11 notes- social identity and self-categorization. The categorization explicitly involved the self: participants were randomly categorized into minimally defeind groups. Tajfel showed that, to ensure their own group gained more than the outgroup, individuals sacrified personal self-interest as well as larger total for their group. Ingroup bias occurred even when the gain was symbolic rather than material. They dis-identify with their low-status group and try to attain membership of the higher status group: ex: members of lower status groups who hold social mobility beliefs, such as. Integroup boundaries such as gender or skin are acknowledged to be impermeable. Self-categorization theory: self-categorization part of sit explains social influence, referent informational influence theory. People readily assume ingroups share their own attributes (consistent with idea that group and self can be psychologically the same) People can also internalize the properties of other people, and of the ingroup as a whole, as a part of the self.
