Demand characteristics cannot explain minimal group discrimination because observers failed to predict it

Evidence

The categorized subjects did discriminate significantly, but the observers failed to predict it and in fact expected significantly more fairness than was actually displayed. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2708

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports Tajfel’s core claim in the minimal group paradigm, contradicting experimenter-demand critiques of these seminal social identity studies.