In-group favoritism among native and immigrant Turkish Cypriots: Trait evaluations of in-group and out-group targets

The authors investigated whether in-group favoritism manifests itself as pr aise for the in-group or as denigration of the out-group. A total of 450 Tu rkish Cypriots (248 native, 202 immigrant) judged the applicability of posi tive and negative trait words to in-group and out-group targets. Both the n ative and the immigrant, groups judged the positive traits as more applicab le to their respective in-groups than to the out-roup. The native group eva luated the negative social traits as more applicable to the immigrant group . The immigrant group also judged the negative social traits as more applic able to themselves, The two groups did not differ in their judgments for mo re personal negative traits.