Studies of Tajfel and Turner's minimal intergroup situation indicate that:
A)Intergroup situations can trigger stereotype threat.
B)People,when categorized into groups,tend to favor those groups.
C)People's social identities are determined primarily by social groups rather than social categories.
D)Group membership serves to increase members' sense of self-worth.

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Tajfel and Turner's minimal intergroup situation experiments demonstrated that even arbitrary and insignificant group affiliations are enough to trigger in-group favoritism and out-group discrimination. Participants tended to favor their own group, even when it was created through a random and meaningless assignment, indicating a natural tendency towards social categorization and bias.

Studies of Tajfel and Turner's Minimal Intergroup Situation Indicate That