• A sample of 48 boys aged 14-15 years old, were asked to rate 12 paintings by abstract artists Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky.
• They were not told which artist had painted either painting
• Based on whose painting they chose, the 48 boys were assigned into groups and told that they were grouped based on the fact that they chose either KLEE or KANDINSKY’s paintings.
• Each boy was then given the task to allocate points to two other boys, one from his group and one from the other group.
• The information that each boy had was just code numbers and the name of the groups
• TAJFEL created a special point allocation system just to see how specific variables would influence the boys choice of award based on which groups would benefit per choice

1. Option One: Maximum Joint Profit - Giving the largest awards to members of BOTH groups
2. Option 2: Maximum IN-Group Profit - Giving their ingroup member the largest rewards
3. Option 3 - Maximum Differences (The Bitchy One LMAO) - Giving the LARGESTTT possible difference in the reward given to their in group and the outgroup

• The options they chose MAXIMISED in group profit - Clearly demonstrating what In-Group favoritism is
• They were also willing to give their own team fewer points just to maximise the difference between their group and the outgroup
• TAJFEL CONCLUDED that Outgroup discrimination is EXTREMELY easy to trigger, and that even a minimal group is enough to trigger outgroup discrimination
• Highly standardised and controlled experiment, replicable, but with low cultural and ecological validity