Matthew T. Crawford

Matthew T. Crawford

Matthew T. Crawford is a social psychologist and the first author of the 2002 paper Perceived entitativity, stereotype formation, and the interchangeability of group members in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He is a different person from the author of The World Beyond Your Head.

Who they are

Crawford published the 2002 paper with Steven J. Sherman and David L. Hamilton. This page records that authorship; no biographical detail beyond the paper has been verified for it.

Key papers

Crawford, M. T., Sherman, S. J., & Hamilton, D. L. (2002). Perceived entitativity, stereotype formation, and the interchangeability of group members. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83(5), 1076-1094. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.83.5.1076

Key ideas

The paper reports three savings-in-relearning experiments on how a group's perceived entitativity affects the processing of one member's behaviour. Trait inferences about a single member were stronger for low-entitativity groups and collections of individuals, and traits transferred from one member to the others more strongly in high-entitativity groups. See Entitativity.

Sources

  1. Crawford, M. T., Sherman, S. J., & Hamilton, D. L. (2002). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83(5), 1076-1094.