in-group
noun
a group of people sharing similar interests and attitudes, producing feelings of solidarity, community, and exclusivity.
ingroup
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a variation of
in-group.
Example Sentences
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Contrary to prevalent wisdom that ingroup members always judge other ingroup members more favorably than outgroup members, they found that people made harsher moral judgments against the ingroup transgressor.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2023
“I think these presentations are like this because they are produced and used entirely by an ingroup, which consists mostly of PowerPoint-reading and -producing officers and their staff,” said Atherton.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2023
Because you encounter members of your ingroup fairly frequently, unique and/or identifying information about people who belong to your ingroup is useful, frequent, and attention-grabbing.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 15, 2015
By comparing ingroup members to each other and to the outgroup members, we can determine which characteristics are evolutionary modifications determining the branch points of the ingroup’s phylogeny.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
Because studies of ingroup and outgroup thinking show that people who disagree with us are seen as im moral.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2012
