Become an ally to members of an oppressed out-group. From Wordnik.com. [Creating institutional change: A short primer] Reference
I would also like to suggest that that out-group is racialized. From Wordnik.com. [TABBIES FOR TOYOTA » Sociological Images] Reference
Everyone else is the out-group, however those groups may be divided up. From Wordnik.com. [WTF Do I Do? Why, Social Psychology of course!] Reference
Communication is an important skill for dealing with members of the out-group. From Wordnik.com. [Med Students Think They’re Isolated? Hah, Wimps! : Law is Cool] Reference
Could it be that "out-group animus" is the only racial attitude you understand?. From Wordnik.com. [Hannity, Clinton, Obama, Rev. Wright and "Racism 101"] Reference
That leads to the scariest, most personal form of an in-group/out-group dichotomy. From Wordnik.com. [Erica Slead: Bush, Palin Both Think They're Chosen By God] Reference
In small tribal communities, interactions with out-group members would have been rare. From Wordnik.com. [Matt J. Rossano: Who is My Neighbor?: The Best and Worst of Religious Morality] Reference
I prefer the latter which is an out-group, neutral description for the general public. From Wordnik.com. [Threats against University of Colorado Biologists - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Are police officers aware of which citizens fall into their "in-group" and "out-group?". From Wordnik.com. [Todd Kashdan: What Can Police Officers Learn From Positive Psychology?] Reference
And so it goes: in each instance, one out-group fails to rise to the defense of another. From Wordnik.com. [Repenting Silence: The Scapegoating of Van Jones] Reference
They were the in-group and I was the out-group until my parents put me in another school. From Wordnik.com. [Joan Borysenko: The Robber's Cave and Higher Ground] Reference
Namely, these concepts are social categorization, in-group bias, and out-group homogeneity. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
How in-group/out-group dynamics works is pretty well understood from a practical point of view. From Wordnik.com. [Princess of the Flies] Reference
Certainly, the children of Latin Americans who are born here would be seen as less of an out-group. From Wordnik.com. [Interview with Trent McBride, Including the Political Consequences of Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
This Australian commercial for Toyota Corolla found here includes a homogenous, racialized out-group. From Wordnik.com. [TABBIES FOR TOYOTA » Sociological Images] Reference
But humans and chimpanzees, when they are fighting an out-group, have the ability to turn off the empathy. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
By doing this they are able to communicate with their in-group and conceal the content from the out-group. From Wordnik.com. [Teens Use Secret Lingo on Social Networking Sites to Deceive Parents | Impact Lab] Reference
Plus none of us Board members who are in the "out-group" were allowed to come -- or even notified about it. From Wordnik.com. [Special "Oops they forgot the Brown Act" issue of my housing co-op newsletter] Reference
In fact, what member of any group would respond warmly to an out-group member rating his or her legitimacy?. From Wordnik.com. [Melanie Billings-Yun: Men Up, Grizzlies Down] Reference
However, they seem to quickly work out which languages and accents are "in-group" and which are "out-group.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
We developed strong in-group and out-group instincts, and for many aspects of behavior we still have such feelings. From Wordnik.com. [The Protectionist Instinct] Reference
Religions, in particular, tend to stress "in-group" versus "out-group" thinking, intensifying our groupish tendencies. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinian Virtues] Reference
I think the in-group/out-group distinction may be at the core of the evolutionarily based tendencies I'm wondering about. From Wordnik.com. [On the difficult art of SYNTHESIS] Reference
Authoritarian followers tend to be egalitarians, and to favor government social welfare, provided that no out-group benefits. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Contingency? Irony? Solidarity!] Reference
Administrational priorities follow the old sociological maxim: When you create an in-group, you do so by creating an out-group. From Wordnik.com. [We are not one « Attempting Elegance] Reference
In all cases, more diversity is tolerated in the "out-group", as the "in-group" have to maintain a rough consensus at all times. From Wordnik.com. [Grasping the Nettle of Personality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Besides ordinary in-group/out-group effects, religions explicitly teach that we are made to serve something larger than ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Valerie Tarico: Does Evangelical Giving Do the World Good?] Reference
I guess I just find myself more interested in devoting energy to the out-group than the in-group as it were at the moment, TN aside. From Wordnik.com. [Second Life] Reference
By the same token, however, there is evidence that heightened devotion to religious beliefs may actually curb out-group hostilities. From Wordnik.com. [Matt J. Rossano: The Surprising Effect of Religious Devotion on Suicide Attacks] Reference
Illegal aliens as the most recent out-group will, like termites, penetrate our insulated society and ultimately capture us from within. From Wordnik.com. [Bryant Welch: America's Paranoid Crisis: The Joe Wilson Case] Reference
The Holocaust created in her a need to keep memory alive, and her status as an outsider helped her to understand women as an out-group. From Wordnik.com. [Gerda Lerner.] Reference
Inflicting harm on our opponents or members of the out-group is not only OK but, once we see them as the enemy, is often adopted as a single-minded pursuit. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Bettelheim: Crowley vs. Gates: The Heart of Prejudice] Reference
During the early postwar decades, the combination of in-group solidarity and out-group hostility was much more pronounced than what we're comfortable with today. From Wordnik.com. [Nostalgianomics] Reference
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