Group entitativity and social attribution: On translating situational constraints into stereotypes
(1998) Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin — Vol. 24, n° 10, p. 1089-1103 (1998)
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- The research investigates the impact of group entitativity on social attribution. Perceivers confronted with a group high in entitativity more readily call on an underlying essence to explain people's behavior We adapted Boss, Amabile, and Steinmetz's overattribution paradigm to a group setting. Participants were randomly selected to join a group of questioners, answerers, or observers in a quiz game. Unknown to the contestants, their group was presented to the observers as an entity or as an aggregate. As predicted group entitativity promoted the use of dispositional attributions for the behavior of group members. These findings suggest that the explanation of group members' behavior is more likely to remain situation insensitive whenever perceivers share the naive theory that underlying features characterize the group. The discussion focuses on the impact of social attribution in the emergence of stereotypes and examines the rob of subjective essentialism in social categorization and rationalization.
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Yzerbyt, V., Rogier, A., & Fiske, S. T. (1998). Group entitativity and social attribution: On translating situational constraints into stereotypes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24(10), 1089-1103. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672982410006 (Original work published 1998)