Aggressive retribution spreads to all group members only when group is entitative

Evidence

Note that only one of the three persons rejected the participant, but the aggressive retribution was administered to all three group members. However, this only happened when the target group was high in entitativity and not when it was a low entitativity group. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 275

Categorization

• BMF: This evokes the collective punishment logic of the colonial British in Things Fall Apart — the destruction of Abame’s entire clan in retaliation for one white man’s killing — where the punishing power treats the group as one entity.
• XREF: connects to: Serialized classes coalesce into groups only through a common external enemy. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 559; Collective blame drives vicarious retribution spirals that escalate intergroup conflict. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 351