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{{Short description|Sociological notions}}
{{Use American English|date=December 2018}}[[File:091507-USCNeb-MemorialStadium.jpg|thumb|Multiple layers of in-groups and out-groups in an American football stadium:<ul>
<li>People in this stadium form an in-group of football fans vs. those who are not fans of football.
<li>Supporters of one team vs. supporters of the opponent team.
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}}</ref> about the innate propensity of the human brain to divide the world into '''us and them''' valence categories, where the exact membership of the in-group and out-group are socially contingent (hence vulnerable to the instruments of [[propaganda]]), and the intensity exists along a spectrum from mild to complete [[dehumanization]] of the "othered" group.
==Associated phenomena==
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