Derogatory outgroup names and complimentary ingroup names remain unexplored in research

Evidence

We need to examine the correspondences between what we know about the use of ethnophaulisms and what we know about the linguistic intergroup bias, the use of derogatory outgroup jokes, or “ethnolinguistic betrayal” in language switching. The relative importance of complexity and valence in ethnophaulisms is an intriguing development in this arena and may be paralleled by analogous asymmetries in the complexity and valence of derogatory outgroup jokes. The general absence of research on verbal realism represents an important direction for future efforts. Finally, we should highlight the importance of the essentially unexplored comparisons between ethnophaulisms as derogatory outgroup names and ethnonyms as complimentary ingroup names. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1299

Categorization

• SEED: The untested symmetry between derogatory outgroup names and complimentary ingroup names could seed an article on how naming encodes moral evaluation.