Glossary O
Glossary O
Deutsch: Außengruppe / Español: grupo externo / Português: grupo externo / Français: groupe externe / Italiano: gruppo esterno
The outgroup is a group that people perceive as distinctively different from or apart from their ingroup.
In the context of psychology, an outgroup refers to any group with which an individual does not identify. This concept is critical in social psychology, particularly in the study of group dynamics, prejudice, and intergroup relations.
Outgroup homogeneity bias refers to a tendency to underestimate the variability among outgroup members; the assumption that outgroup members are more similar to one another than ingroup members are to one another Outgroup homogeneity bias, moreover, is the perceptual tendency to assume that the members of other groups are very similar to each other, whereas the membership of one’s own group is more heterogeneous.