Antecedents of entitativity in categorically and dynamically construed groups
Rutchick, Hamilton and Sack distinguish 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. Study 1 found that participants recalled and reported different perceptual cues, similarity or interaction, depending on the construal. Study 2 found that entitativity judgements relied on similarity or interaction according to the construal, which the authors take to show that construals change the basis of entitativity.
Rutchick, Hamilton and Sack distinguish 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. Study 1 found that participants recalled and reported different perceptual cues, similarity or interaction, depending on the construal. Study 2 found that entitativity judgements relied on similarity or interaction according to the construal, which the authors take to show that construals change the basis of entitativity.
Written from the abstract, Crossref record, 2026-10-31.
What our sources record
Recorded when this source was checked, figures included, with page references and quotation marks removed.
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 https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.555