The work of Tajfel and Turner wanted to move away from the dominant experimental position which they believed lacked validity as it took no account of intergroup relations in a social context or considered any broader cultural and historical factors. ... His results suggested that people overestimate the physical difference of high and low value coins and underestimated the size difference of similar valued coins. Tajfel argued (1969 cited in Brown 2007) that these cognitive biases might translate to how we perceive other people and how we categorise groups in terms of nationality, ethnicit...

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