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Prejudice and Ingroup Favoritism in a Minimal Intergroup Situation

Effects of Self-Esteem

State University of New York at Buffalo

Ian Schwartz

Northwestern University

Previous studies indicate that people who are low in self-esteem are more prejudiced (i.e., more negative about outgroups) than people who are high in self esteem. It is not clear from this research, however, whether low self-esteem individuals derogate outgroups relative to the ingroup (i.e., whether they show ingroup favoritism or ethnocentrism). In an experiment using the minimal intergroup situation paradigm, it was found that both high and low self-esteem subjects show ingroup favoritism, although low self-esteem subjects rated both the ingroup and the outgroup more negatively than did high self-esteem subjects. There was no evidence for greater ingroup favoritism among low self-esteem subjects. The results are discussed in terms of the distinction between prejudice and ethnocentrism and the self-enhancing functions of ingroup favoritism.

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 11, No. 4, 379-386 (1985)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167285114004


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