Every Year, Penguin Corporation Gives Each Employee a Fruit Basket

question 113

True/False

Every year, Penguin Corporation gives each employee a fruit basket and a bottle of wine at Christmas.These gifts are not subject to the cutback adjustment.

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Definitions:

Referent Group

A group to which an individual or another group is compared, often for the purpose of evaluating and understanding one's own attitudes, values, and behaviors.

In-Group

A group in society with which an individual psychologically feels a sense of belonging.

Out-Group

A social group towards which a person feels a sense of competition or opposition.

"Robber's Cave" Experiment

A classic social psychology experiment by Muzafer Sherif that studied intergroup conflict and cooperation by observing boys at a summer camp divided into competing groups.