Henri Tajfel
Henri Tajfel · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Social psychologist who developed social identity theory
1919, Włocławek, Poland — 1982, Bristol, England
Poland · France · United Kingdom
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Henri Tajfel was a social psychologist who developed social identity theory and the 'minimal group' experiments, showing how mere categorization into groups can generate intergroup bias — work rooted in his effort to understand prejudice and the Holocaust. He was a Polish Jew who survived the war as a French prisoner of war while most of his family was murdered; he later built British social psychology at Bristol.
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Social psychologist who developed social identity theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
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