A. Rustemli et al., In-group favoritism among native and immigrant Turkish Cypriots: Trait evaluations of in-group and out-group targets, J SOC PSYCH, 140(1), 2000, pp. 26-34
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.