in-group
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The other is cultural: in-group favoritism, reinforced by the importance in China of keeping local stakeholders happy, especially government officials, often at the expense of shareholders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
This suggests that rivalry strengthens in-group bonds and reinforces social identity.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025
So if you decide to exclude someone from a paradigm, you have to change the rules and you have to define who is in the in-group and who is in the out-group.
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2025
We asked questions about their national in-group bias — which is, for example, how intelligent or charismatic they perceived a typical United Kingdom resident to be.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
Government, law, order, peace, and institutions were developed in the in-group.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
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