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Favouritism as a function of assumed similarity and anticipated interaction
Author(s) -
Eiser J. Richard,
Taylor Sarah J.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.2420020409
Subject(s) - psychology , similarity (geometry) , social psychology , affect (linguistics) , function (biology) , group (periodic table) , developmental psychology , communication , artificial intelligence , evolutionary biology , computer science , image (mathematics) , biology , chemistry , organic chemistry
Discussions of intergroup behavior (e.g., Rabbie and Wilkens, 1971; Tajfel, Flament, Billig and Bundy, 1971) have drawn attention to the influence of both assumed similarity and anticipated future interaction between an individual and other members of his group on his tendency to assign more favourable outcomes to members of his own group than to members of another group. This note examines whether similar processes may also affect an individual's tendency to make intragroup discriminations between different members of a group to which he himself does not belong, in a situation where the variables of similarity and anticipated interaction may be treated as independent factors.