Brian Lickel

Brian Lickel

Brian Lickel is a social psychologist and the first author of the 2000 paper Varieties of groups and the perception of group entitativity in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The paper sorted forty rated groups into four types.

Who they are

Lickel is a researcher in social psychology whose published work includes studies of how people perceive groups. This page records his authorship of the 2000 paper; no biographical detail beyond the paper has been verified for it.

Key papers

Lickel, B., Hamilton, D. L., Wieczorkowska, G., Lewis, A., Sherman, S. J., & Uhles, A. N. (2000). Varieties of groups and the perception of group entitativity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78(2), 223-246. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.78.2.223

Key ideas

The paper reports three studies. Participants in the United States and Poland rated forty groups, and the ratings clustered into intimacy groups, task groups, social categories and loose associations. In a third study, participants rated groups they belonged to and valued membership most in groups they perceived as high in entitativity. See Four Types of Group and Entitativity.

Sources

  1. Lickel, B., Hamilton, D. L., Wieczorkowska, G., Lewis, A., Sherman, S. J., & Uhles, A. N. (2000). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78(2), 223-246.