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In-Group and Out-Group Bias

Identify the systematic tendency to judge, trust, and allocate resources more favorably to members of one's own group than to outsiders, even when group membership is arbitrary. Recognize how this bias shows up between sub-teams, departments, or a distributed team's different office locations.

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Minimal Groups: Favouritism From Arbitrary Group Membership

Shows the minimal group paradigm — people assigned to meaningless groups still allocate more to their own — establishing that in-group favouritism needs no history, rivalry, or real stake to appear.