Ebook: A group by any other name

Статья
David L. Hamilton a; Steven J. Sherman b; Luigi Castelli c
First Published on: 01 January 2002
To cite this Article: Hamilton, David L., Sherman, Steven J. and Castelli, Luigi
(2002) 'A Group By Any Other Name - The Role of Entitativity Group Perception',
European Review of Social Psychology, 12:1, 139 - 166ABSTRACT
The social world consists of numerous and diverse groupings of people into
meaningful and important collectives. As perceivers, we routinely encounter
aggregates of people, some of which we endow with the property of groupness,
and others we do not. Moreover, the variety of groups is enormous, yet perceivers
differentiate among them and understand their properties. This chapter
discusses how and why perceivers see an aggregate of persons as a group, the
distinctions among different types of groups that perceivers detect, the variation
among groups in their perceived groupness or entitativity, and the consequences
that follow from perceiving a group as an entitative unit. The results of our
research program addressing these issues are summarized, and implications for
remaining unanswered questions are discussed.