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Henri Tajfel

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posted on 2015-06-19, 15:08 authored by Michael Billig
Henri Tajfel (1919-1981) was an influential social psychologist who explored the cognitive aspects of prejudice. He conducted experiments to demonstrate how categorization affected perceptual judgement and he conducted the original minimal group experiments showing how people would identify with artificial, meaningless groups. He formulated Social Identity Theory, which has had a major impact on contemporary social psychology and he was a key figure in establishing the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology.

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Published in

Encyclopedia of Social Theory

Pages

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Citation

BILLIG, M., 2017. Henri Tajfel. IN: Turner, B.S. ... et al (eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, DOI: 10.1002/9781118430873

Publisher

John Wiley

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2017

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This item is closed access.

ISBN

1118430867;9781118430866

Language

  • en