Perceived entitativity cues may not match a group’s actual entitativity.

Evidence

An important (and as yet unanswered) question is, how do judgments of entitativity relate to the actual entitativity of those groups? And how well do the cues used in judging entitativity correspond (both in which cues are used and in the extent to which they are used, i.e., weighted) to the importance of those same variables in defining a group’s actual entitativity (see Hamilton et al. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 285