Examples of ingroup in the following topics:
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- 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.
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- The Ingroup bias shows a preference for individuals who are in one's own group affiliation.