Us and Them
How groups form, why prejudice sticks, and what actually reduces it.
Social psychologyIntermediate
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- Lessons
- 2
- Time
- 1 h 10 min
- Pauses to think
- 4
About this course
It takes surprisingly little to make people favour their own group. This course covers the Robbers Cave study, the minimal group experiments, and the contact hypothesis, with an honest look at what the evidence does and does not support.
You will be able to
- Describe the minimal group paradigm
- Explain realistic conflict theory
- Summarise the evidence for intergroup contact
What is inside
1.Making groups
From summer camps to coin tosses.
- Arbitrary teams2 pauses9:56
- Contact2 pauses12:14