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Michael Billig
Researcher at Loughborough University
Publications - 128
Citations - 16733
Michael Billig is an academic researcher from Loughborough University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social psychology (sociology) & Rhetoric. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 125 publications receiving 15851 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Billig include University of Bristol & University of Birmingham.
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Social categorization and intergroup behaviour
TL;DR: In the second series of experiments, it was found that the maximum joint profit independent of group membership did not affect significantly the manner in which the subjects divided real pecuniary rewards; however, maximum profit for own group did affect the distribution of rewards; and the clearest effect on the subject's attempt to achieve a maximum difference between the ingroup and the outgroup even at the price of sacrificing other "objective" advantages.
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Arguing and Thinking: A Rhetorical Approach to Social Psychology
TL;DR: Arguing and thinking as mentioned in this paper is an entertaining and scholarly exposition of ideas of rhetoric viewed as social psychological theories, from Classical times to the nineteenth century. But it is self-confessedly unorthodox.
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Ideological Dilemmas: A Social Psychology of Everyday Thinking
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify common ideological themes running through the common-sense discourses they analyse and highlight the tensions between themes of equality and authority, freedom and necessity, individuality and collectivity.
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Social categorization and similarity in intergroup behaviour
Michael Billig,Henri Tajfel +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the role of social categorization in intergroup behavior was explored and it was found that, as soon as the notion of "group" was introduced into the situation, the subjects still discriminated against those assigned to another random category.
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Laughter and Ridicule: Towards a Social Critique of Humour
TL;DR: A Critique of Positive Humour Part One: HISTORICAL ASPECTS superiority theories Hobbes and other Misogelasts Incongruity Theories and Gentlemanly Laughter Victorian Relief Theory Bergson and the Function of Humour Freud and the Hidden Secrets of Jokes Part Two: THEORETICAL ASPEECTS Laughter and Unlaughter Embarrassment, Humour and the Social Order Final Remarks