Merely categorizing people into arbitrary groups like "red team" or "blue team" is sufficient to produce ingroup favoritism.

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Merely categorizing people into arbitrary groups like "red team" or "blue team" is sufficient to produce ingroup favoritism. ​

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Research in social psychology has shown that even minimal group paradigms, where people are divided into groups on arbitrary or trivial criteria, can lead to ingroup favoritism, where individuals prefer and give better treatment to members of their own group over those of other groups.

Merely Categorizing People into Arbitrary Groups Like "Red Team" or "Blue