Perceiving persons and groups.

By D. Hamilton, Steven J. Sherman. 1996

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Theory of Mind: A Neural Prediction Problem (2013, neutral): “Observers expect other people to be self-consistent and coherent (e.g., Hamilton and Sherman, 1996).”
Culture, essentialism, and agency: Are individuals universally believed to be more real entities than groups? (2005, background): “Reviewing experiments on person and group impression formation mainly conducted in North America, Hamilton and Sherman (1996) concluded that participants typically assumed greater entitativity for individuals than for groups (also see Brewer & Harasty, 1996).”
Internal Status Sorting in Groups: The Problem of too many Stars (2005, background): “The term entitativity (Campbell, 1958; Hamilton & Sherman, 1996) refers to a perceiver's sense of the group's social integration, and is determined by the degree of perceived similarity and common fate among members (Hamilton & Sherman, 1996; Lickel et al., 2000).”
Self-uncertainty and Support for Autocratic Leadership (2013, background): “Entitativity is that property of a group, resting on clear boundaries, internal homogeneity, social interaction, clear internal structure, common goals, and common fate, which makes a group ‘‘groupy’’ (e.g., Hamilton & Sherman, 1996).”
Cross-cultural adjustment of expatriates: The role of emotional intelligence and gender (2014, background): “Relying on stereotypes has been found to lead to false expectations about the new environment (e.g. Hamilton & Sherman, 1996), which in turn affects expatriates’ adjustment.”
Going to extremes: Social identity and communication processes associated with gang membership (2014, background): “…seeking a group that is higher in entitativity, where entitativity is that property of a group that makes it appear to have clear boundaries, internal homogeneity, tight social interaction, clear internal structure, common goals, and common fate (Campbell, 1958; Hamilton & Sherman, 1996).”
Dimensions of Folk Psychiatry (2005, background): “I propose that groups of people who are judged to engage in deviant behavior tend to be perceived as coherent entities and that this perception of “entitativity” (Campbell, 1958; Hamilton & Sherman, 1996) is one cognitive component of pathologizing.”
The Interplay of Subjective Essentialism and Entitativity in the Formation of Stereotypes (2001, background): “…an attempt to reconcile a series of inconsistent messages emerging from impression formation research and work on stereotyping and group perception, Hamilton and Sherman (1996) proposed that perceivers engage in qualitatively different mental operations depending on the assumed entitativity of the…”