The dangers of conformity
Henri Tajfel was born in Poland in 1919. As a young man he left Poland because of restrictions on Jews in universities and went to France to study chemistry at the Sorbonne. At the start of the Second World War he volunteered to serve in the French army and was subsequently taken prisoner by the Germans. He survived the war in prisoner-of-war camps but on his return home he found that his family and most of his friends had died in the Nazi Holocaust. This had a deep effect on Tajfel and it led him to devote his life to the study of the psychology of prejudice and group relations.
After the war he moved to Britain and took British citizenship. He studied psychology at London University and in 1967 he became Chair ...
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