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
We tend to believe that bad things that happen to people in our ingroup are bum luck, while bad things that happen to people in outgroups are evidence of a just universe.
From Washington Post ● May 17, 2018
Our natural tendency is to more readily empathize with and forgive our ingroup than our outgroup, so engaging with voters from the other side will take concentrated effort.
From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2016
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
