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In-Group and Out-Group

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In sociology and social psychology, an in-group is a social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member. By contrast, an out-group is a social group with which an individual does not identify. People may for example identify with their peer group, family, community, sports team, political party, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, or nation. It has been found that the psychological membership of social groups and categories is associated with a wide variety of phenomena.

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made popular by Henri Tajfel and colleagues beginning in the 1970s during his work in formulating social identity theory

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people can form self-preferencing in-groups within a matter of minutes and that such groups can form even on the basis of completely arbitrary and invented discriminatory characteristics,

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intensity exists along a spectrum from mild to complete dehumanization of the “othered” group.

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under certain conditions, people will prefer and have affinity for one’s in-group over the out-group, or anyone viewed as outside the in-group.

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just by arbitrarily assigning a person to a distinct and objectively meaningless novel group; this alone is sufficient to create intergroup biases in which members of the perceiver’s own group are preferentially favored

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in-group favoritism takes place, even in arbitrarily assigned groups where group members have nothing in common other than the group to which they were assigned

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in-group favoritism and out-group bias occurs very early in perception

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Research indicates that individuals are faster and more accurate at recognizing faces of ingroup vs. outgroup members.

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outgroup members are perceived as more similar to each other than ingroup members.[18]

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out-group homogeneity effect. This refers to the perception of members of an out-group as being homogenous, while members of one’s in-group are perceived as being diverse, e.g. “they are alike; we are diverse”.

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