Out-group illusion

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The Out-group illusion is the tendency to blame an undesirable language trend on a particular group of people when it is in fact the product of widespread usage.

[edit] See also

• Adolescent illusion
• Antiquity illusion
• Infrequency illusion
• Recency illusion

[edit] External links

• New Scientist article (subscription only; hard copy at New Scientist, 17 November 2007 p. 60)