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Contents. Examples of ingroups and outgroups. Psychology of ingroups and outgroups. Affirmational and negational categorization. Superordinate groups and subgroups. Fluidity of social identity. Accounting for ingroups and outgroups. The intergroup bias. How to reduce intergroup bias. Summary and conclusions. Examples of ingroups and outgroups.
A group that a person identifies with is their “in-group”. People who do not fall within the in-group are the “out-group”. This leads to two simultaneous cognitive processes: In-group bias: showing a preference for people within your group. Out-group bias: automatically disliking people who are not within your group.
Ingroup and Outgroup are two concepts used in social psychology to describe the way individuals perceive and interact with others. The Ingroup refers to a group to which an individual belongs or identifies with, while the Outgroup refers to a group to which an individual does not belong or identifies with.
Examples of In-groups and Out-groups. It’s important to note that ingroups and outgroups are fluid concepts. The group an individual identifies with can change based on context, environment, or over time. Moreover, everyone belongs to multiple ingroups across different facets of their identity.
Recognize the arbitrary nature of many ingroup-outgroup distinctions. The example of pedestrians and motorists is perhaps the easiest one for understanding this point.
More specifically, our in-group is a group we are a part of or identify with (genetically, culturally, or ideologically), and our out-group is the opposite, a group we don’t identify as being a part of or aren’t a part of (genetically, culturally, or ideologically).
Learning Objectives. Recall two of the key features of in-group biases toward out-groups. In sociology and social psychology, in-groups and out-groups are social groups to which an individual feels as though he or she belongs as a member, or towards which they feel contempt, opposition, or a desire to compete, respectively.
In-group and out-group. People in this stadium form an in-group of American football fans and professionals vs. those who are not fans of the sport. Fans in attendance at the stadium vs. people spectating the match via external means, e.g. television/radio coverage.
Read a comparison of the ingroup vs. the outgroup. Learn about real-world examples of ingroups and outgroups and understand what an outgroup stereotype is. Updated: 11/21/2023
Explores W.G. Sumner's concepts of in-groups and out-groups, illustrating how these groups influence social behavior, stereotypes, and group loyalty.