MEANING
A group seen as separate from the group someone belongs to or identifies with.
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- out-group members
- out-group hostility
- an out-group stereotype
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Contact reduced the students' tendency to describe out-group members as all alike.
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Primary category: psychology / human behavior. Forms: singular out-group; plural out-groups. Closed spelling outgroup and plural outgroups are variants of one entry. Writing functions: identity, social influence, comparison. Commonness: moderately common in social psychology.
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