outgroup

plural outgroups

1. human sciencesThe group of people who do not belong to one's own social group.

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   This dissertation promises to correct for this theoretical deficit by formulating, elaborating, and ultimately testing a group-based moral emotions account in which white Americans’ moral appraisals of and attitudes towards racial/ethnic outgroups are considerably influenced by those of and towards fellow whites. […] On the basis of the insights from intergroup emotions theory, Chapter 3 derives and presents a series of preliminary hypotheses that are designed to test the relative importance of white shame and guilt for white Americans’ support for equity-oriented pro-black policies (e.g. affirmative action, financial reparations) and expressions of outgroup favoritism.

   2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, in Georgia State University, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2025, pages 9, 13

2. systematicsIn cladistics, all the taxa included in a study that do not belong to the ingroup that is of immediate interest.

   A cladistic analysis of 45 ingroup and two outgroup taxa was performed on the basis of 134 characters.

   2009 January 15, Martin D. Brazeau, “The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins”, Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07436

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   To study the genetic relationships among diphyllobothroid tapeworms, other members of the Diphyllobothriidae are considered, with T. solium as the outgroup.

   2012, Dongyou Liu, Molecular Detection of Human Parasitic Pathogens, page 293

present singular third person outgroups · participle present outgrouping · participle past outgrouped · past outgrouped

1. To form an outgroup.