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en-wikipedia-org-1641		Social identity theory - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4653	611	55	Social identity attributes the cause of ingroup favoritism to a psychological need for positive distinctiveness and describes the situations where ingroup favoritism is likely to occur (as a function of perceived group status, legitimacy, stability, and permeability).[3][28] It has been shown via the minimal group studies that ingroup favoritism may occur for both arbitrary ingroups (e.g. a coin toss may split participants into a 'heads' group and a 'tails' group) as well as non-arbitrary ingroups (e.g. ingroups based on cultures, genders, sexual orientation, and first languages).[29][30] Some researchers, including Michael Hogg and Dominic Abrams, thus propose a fairly direct relationship between positive social identity and self-esteem. Differentiation Between Groups: Studies in the Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations. Differentiation Between Groups: Studies in the Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1641.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1641.txt