Outgroup

An outgroup is an organism considered not to be part of the group in question, although it is closely related to the group. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You accuse me of going with the crowd but your position is nothing but a relic of religious influences, a mindless and incoherrent dislike of those that are different based on silly superstition and a need to create an 'outgroup' to feel you're better than. ❋ Jack Of Kent (2009)

Colorado is part of Nebraska's "outgroup" and visa versa, he said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

From there, it is a short step to concluding that other, perhaps all, members of this particular outgroup are not so bad after all. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

In other words, just as we found that an increase in religious bridging corresponds to warmer feelings toward religious outgroups, we might expect more bridging to lead to the full acceptance of an outgroup—those without a religion—into the national community. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

First, you become friends with someone without being aware that she is a member of the outgroup. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

A process by which one becomes friends with someone first, and then comes to know their religion second, is an example of a more general process by which people come to like one member of an “outgroup,” and then generalize their positive feelings to the group as a whole. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

April 21st, 2010 at 2: 06 pm tombaker says: teabaggers want to maintain/restore the reign of white christian male privilege, so that privileged white christian males can continue to abuse their privileges with impunity – cheat, steal, and lie – while ensuring that anyone from an outgroup who steps out of line is harshly and immediately punished. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The New York Times reported earlier this week that, at a conference of Social Psychologists, Dr. Jonathan Haidt pointed out a new outgroup: conservatives. ❋ Alexandra Petri (2011)

If humans and dolphins share a closer common ancestor than they do with toads, then according to you the loss of legs in dolphins means we can't objectively group humans and dolphins with toads in the outgroup. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My guess is that objective classification would place humans and fish as the ingroup, and butterflies as the outgroup. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But we can still objectively classify humans and dolphins with toads in the outgroup based on the overall pattern of traits (mammary glands, aortic arch, hair follicles during some stage of development, a single lower jaw bone, auditory ossicles, diaphragm). ❋ Unknown (2010)

At least Julian, via Hirshfeld, admits that ingroup vs. outgroup sentiments are largely inborn. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although Al Gore and some others call global warming a moral crisis, it's hard to recognize the nature of the decision, in the way we can spot the temptation to steal or commit adultery or tell a lie or break any of the other Biblical commandments or oppress an outgroup or deny half the population the right to vote. ❋ Craig K. Comstock (2011)

It seems to me that anytime someone roots an unrooted tree with an outgroup, they are essentially saying that shared derived character states indicate shared history, and that shared ancestral character states do not within the ingroup. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Who gave Hitler the initial basis for transmogrifying centuries of outgroup religious hatred into a new twentieth century political anti-Semitism? ❋ Unknown (2009)

On both sides, severe trauma, fear, anger (towards ingroup and outgroup), envy and humiliation, make it critical to provide a massive infusion of healing interventions demonstrated effective. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And it's almost invariably the case that such an outlook feeds off and, indeed, often becomes inextricably bound up with antipathy toward the preferred outgroup du jour - whether illegal immigrants, Blacks or (less so these days) Jews, etc (as Alexander Zaitchik notes in one of his profile pieces of Beck, Beck's key inspiration married precisely these strands of thinking - racism, xenophobia, conspiratorial anti-communism and, later on, an overlay of anti-corporate sentiment). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Severe trauma on both sides, fear, envy and humiliation, and anger (towards ingroup and outgroup), make it critical to provide a massive infusion of healing interventions demonstrated effective. ❋ Unknown (2009)