in-group.

A group someone belongs to or identifies with, especially when contrasted with outsiders.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• in-group loyalty
• in-group favoritism
• members of the in-group

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The experiment tested whether trivial shared labels could create in-group loyalty.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychology / human behavior. Forms: singular in-group; plural in-groups. Closed spelling ingroup and plural ingroups are variants of the same entry. Writing functions: identity, social influence, comparison. Commonness: moderately common in social psychology.