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Ingroup
Ingroup meaning
The social group that one belongs to. | In cladistics, the monophyletic group that includes all taxa of interest to the current study.
Example sentences (4)
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.
Making ingroup membership more noticeable increases cooperativeness.
On the other hand, jargon that once was obscure outside a small ingroup can become generally known over time.
Such altruism may only extend to ingroup members while there may instead prejudice and antagonism against outgroup members (See also in-group favoritism ).