hometown bias
Preferring one's origin
Hometown bias is the tendency to favor people, teams, or things from one's own hometown or local area.
Sports fans show hometown bias when they overrate their city's teams.
The term extends to any preference shaped by local loyalty rather than objective assessment: The judges showed obvious hometown bias in their scoring.
- localOf this area
- loyaltyFaithful commitment to another
- favoritismPreferential treatment of some
- rootsUnderground nutrient absorbers
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
old stomping grounds · pride · native · native son · local hero · parochial · regional · allegiance · prejudice · boosterism · tribalism · neighborhood · familiarity · comfort · belonging · provincial · chauvinism · blindspot
- regional biasregionalism, regional pride, sectionalism, localism, provincialism
- legal biasjudicial bias, conflict of interest
- narrow-mindednessnarrow-mindedness, narrowness, close-mindedness, closed-mindedness, close-minded
hometown biasobjectivity
Freedom from personal bias
impartiality · neutrality · even-handedness · disinterestedness · detachment
home, town, homes, homed, homing, homeless, homely, homeward, hometown