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Minimal groups

This term has been used to describe studies like those of Tajfel's whereby artificial groups are created on the basis of almost meaningless (hence minimal) categories (e.g. under and over estimators) and then studying the effects which result.

Here is a summary of one Tajfel's experiments into intergroup discrimination.