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It’s not just about allies – The role of identity in stable ingroup memberships

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2025

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Mark W. Moffett*
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National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, NHB CE516 MRC188, 1000 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington 20560-0003, DC, USA moffettmw@si.edu https://naturalhistory.si.edu/staff/mark-moffett
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Abstract

Dunbar exclusively sees groups as arising through the aggregate relationships between individuals and thereby makes the serious omission of not considering the capacity of those individuals to categorize one another as ingroup versus outgroup members.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 48 , 2025 , e176
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