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Viewing outgroup members negatively to enhance ingroup status. Tribalism's ugly cousin.
Fuels discrimination, political hatred, and explains why group conflicts escalate beyond reasonable disagreements.
This bias can be triggered by completely arbitrary group divisions, like being assigned to 'Team Red' vs 'Team Blue' randomly.
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