Henri Tajfel

Research topics

• Social and Intergroup Psychology · 3 papers
• Cultural Differences and Values · 2 papers
• Gender Diversity and Inequality · 1 paper
• Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · 1 paper

Frequent co-authors

• John C. Turner · 2 papers
• M. G. Billig · 1 paper
• R. P. Bundy · 1 paper
• Claude Flament · 1 paper

Papers

1. The Social Identity Theory of Intergroup BehaviorPolitical Psychology · 2004 · 13,570 citations

   This chapter presents an outline of a theory of intergroup conflict and some preliminary data relating to the theory. Much of the work on the social psychology of intergroup relations has focused on patterns of individual prejudices and discrimination and…

2. An Integrative Theory of Intergroup Conflict2000 · 12,714 citations

   Abstract The initial stimulus for the theorizing presented here was provided by certain experimental investigations of intergroup behavior. The laboratory analog of real-world ethnocentrism is in-group bias—that is, the tendency to favor the in-group over the out-group in evaluations and…

3. Social categorization and intergroup behaviourEuropean Journal of Social Psychology · 1971 · 5,620 citations

   Abstract The aim of the studies was to assess the effefcs of social categorization on intergroup behaviour when, in the intergroup situation, neither calculations of individual interest nor previously existing attitudes of hostility could have been said to have determined…