Perceived group activity and entitativity mutually imply each other

Evidence

We have learned a lot about how perceivers infer group entitativity from information (stimulus cues) about the group, and we know that groups vary considerably in the extent to which they possess (or at least are perceived to possess) these properties. 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

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth investigating whether prejudice exaggerates perceived entitativity beyond what the group actually possesses, and whether this mismatch is even larger for outgroups than ingroups.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 285
• XREF: connects to: Groups perceived as entitative reduce members’ self-concept uncertainty most effectively — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 85