A Group By Any Other Name—The Role of Entitativity in Group Perception

摘要: The social world consists of numerous and diverse groupings people into meaningful important collectives. As perceivers, we routinely encounter aggregates people, some which endow with the property groupness, others do not. Moreover, variety groups is enormous, yet perceivers differentiate among them understand their properties. This chapter discusses how why “see” an aggregate persons as a group, distinctions different types that detect, variation in perceived groupness or entitativity, consequences follow from perceiving group entitative unit. results our research program addressing these issues are summarized, implications for remaining unanswered questions discussed.