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An Integrative Theory of Intergroup Conflict

Henri Tajfel, John C. Turner

2000 · 12,714 citations

doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199269464.003.0005

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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 behavior. Not only are incompatible group interests not always sufficient to generate conflicts but there is a good deal of experimental evidence that these conditions are not always necessary for the development of competition and discrimination between groups (for example, Ferguson & Kelley, 1964; Rabbie & Wilkens, 1971; Doise & Sinclair, 1973; Doise & Weinberger, 1973).

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Tajfel, H., & Turner, J. C. (2000). An integrative theory of intergroup conflict (pp. 56–65). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199269464.003.0005

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