Research neglects perceived entitativity of the intimacy and task groups people actually live in

Evidence

Historically, “group perception” in social psychology has meant the study of perceptions of social categories (stereotypes), an obviously important topic as all of us both belong to and perceive many social categories. However, think about our daily lives. We spend much of our time perceiving, interacting with, and, indeed, living in intimacy groups (family, friends) and task groups (career-related work groups, noncareer-related organizations). Yet we know very little about how people perceive those groups, what determines variation in the perceived entitativity of those groups, and what difference those perceptions make. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 287

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to stereotype and intergroup perception literature; entitativity as prerequisite echoes the reading list’s work on social-psychological building blocks.