abstract:Michael Billig is Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. Working in contemporary social psychology, he trained in Bristol with Henri Tajfel as an experimental psychologist and helped design the so called minimal group experiments which were foundational to the social identity approach.
MichaelBilligargues that when looking at all threestudies, Sherif'sworkinvolvesnotjusttwogroupsbutthree, the experimenters are part of the system as well (Billig, 1976).