ingroup

Examples of ingroup in the following topics:

• Prejudice

  • Negative prejudice is rarely seen in response to one's own group, or ingroup.
  • Researchers have found that ingroup favoritism, or preference for members of the group one belongs to, can occur even when the group had no prior social meaning.
  • Experiments have shown that when participants were assigned to groups based on something as trivial as a coin toss, those participants exhibited ingroup favoritism, giving preferential treatment to members of their own group.
  • The outgroup homogeneity effect is the perception that members of an outgroup are more similar than members of the ingroup.
  • This image emphasizes the individuality of the ingroup (America) and the homogeneity of the outgroup (Slavik communists), demonstrating the principle of outgroup homogeneity.

• Stereotypes in Everyday Life

  • In other words, the creation of an us versus them mentality divides the world into an ingroup and an outgroup.
  • An ingroup is the group with which one identifies; an outgroup is everyone else.

• Cultural Influences on Perception

  • The Ingroup bias shows a preference for individuals who are in one's own group affiliation.

• Social Identity Theory

  • To take the most extreme example, in some violent conflict such as a war, the members of the opposite group - the outgroup - are treated as identical and completely different to the those people in your group - the ingroup - which is made up of distinct individuals.