... from the dominant experimental position which they believed lacked validity as it took no account of intergroup relations in a social context or considered any broader cultural and historical factors. The irony of this is that social identity theory came about initially through Henri Tajfel's experimental laboratory based research on social perception which highlighted cognitive biases. His results suggested that people overestimate ... ...

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... state not out of free will but rather out of fear of punishment. Hence, they become involved in the process of their own subjugation by the political authority. Orwell uses irony to further illustrate the animals' submissiveness. This is manifested, for example, in the exaltation of the hen claiming that «  'Under the guidance of our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid ... ...

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