Abraham M. Rutchick
Abraham M. Rutchick is a social psychologist and the first author of the 2008 paper Antecedents of entitativity in categorically and dynamically construed groups in the European Journal of Social Psychology.
Who they are
Rutchick published the 2008 paper with David L. Hamilton and Jeremy D. Sack. This page records that authorship; no biographical detail beyond the paper has been verified for it.
Key papers
Rutchick, A. M., Hamilton, D. L., & Sack, J. D. (2008). Antecedents of entitativity in categorically and dynamically construed groups. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38(6), 905-921. doi:10.1002/ejsp.555
Key ideas
The paper proposes two ways of construing a group, as a dynamic set of interacting people or as a category of similar people. In two experiments an analogy about bees induced one construal or the other. Participants recalled and reported different cues, similarity or interaction, depending on the construal, and their entitativity judgements rested on similarity or interaction accordingly. See Entitativity.
Sources
- Rutchick, A. M., Hamilton, D. L., & Sack, J. D. (2008). European Journal of Social Psychology, 38(6), 905-921.