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sociology and social psychology, an ingroup is a social group to
which a person psychologically identifies as being a member. By
contrast, an outgroup is a social group with which an individual
does not identify. For example, people may find it
psychologically meaningful to view themselves according to their
race, culture, gender, age, or religion. It has been found that
the psychological membership of social groups and categories is
associated with a wide variety of phenomena.  The terminology
was made popular by Henri Tajfel and colleagues during his work
in formulating social identity theory. The significance of
ingroup and outgroup categorization was identified using a
method called the minimal group paradigm. Tajfel and colleagues
found that people can form self-preferencing ingroups within a
matter of minutes and that such groups can form even on the
basis of seemingly trivial char