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Minimum Group Theory
Explanations > Theories > Minimum Group Theory
Description | Research | Example | So What? | See also | References
Description
Even when a people are arbitrarily assigned to unimportant group categories, they will still act in classic ways towards in-group and out-group people.
Research
Tajfel (1970) randomly allocated to schoolboys to groups who ‘preferred’ paintings by Klee or Kandinsky. When asked to allocate points, they were biased toward their own group.
Example
People in a crowded elevator will silently act together to dissuade additional people from trying to get in.
So what?
Using it
Find a minor point of similarity with the other person and put yourself and the other person in it, with rivals in outside. Talk about ‘us and them.’
Defending
Decide on who your friends are by substantial and sustained evidence, not sudden chumminess and belonging to a common and unimportant category.
See also
References
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