Minimal intergroup discrimination requires none of the assumed preconditions

Evidence

Two points stand out: first, minimal intergroup discrimination is not based on incompatible group interests; second, the baseline conditions for intergroup competition seem indeed so minimal as to cause the suspicion that we are dealing here with some factor or process inherent in the intergroup situation itself. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2713

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the classic minimal group paradigm experiments of Henri Tajfel and to Realistic Conflict Theory debates with Sherif’s Robbers Cave work.