Bagby and Rector (1992)
One aspect of the Social Identity Theory is that we tend to show in-group bias - that is, a preference for people in our in-group and a bias against those who are not in our group. The following study by Bagby and Rector used real social identities - Canadian Francophones and Anglophones - to test the effect of in-group bias on the behavior of jurors in a courtroom scenario. The following study may be used to discuss...