The psychology of group perception : perceived variability, entitativity, and essentialism / / Vincent Yzerbyt, Charles M. Judd & Olivier Corneille, eds

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450977403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-135-43311-9; 0-203-69001-X; 1-280-05413-1; 0-203-64497-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (387 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CorneilleOlivier; JuddCharles M; YzerbytVincent
• Disciplina: 302.3
• Soggetti: Social groups; Psychology; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; About the Editors; Contributors; Preface; Perceived Variability, Entitativity, and Essentialism: Introduction and Overview; Dynamic Entitativity: Perceiving Groups as Actors; Perceiving the Groupness of Groups: Entitativity, Homogeneity, Essentialism, and Stereotypes; Essentialism and Entitativity: Structures of Beliefs about the Ontology of Social Categories; The Mental Representation of Social Categories: Category Boundaries, Entitativity, and Stereotype Change; Subjective Essentialism in Action: Self-Anchoring and Social Control as Consequences of Fundamental Social DividesIn the Eye of the Beholder: Lay Theories and the Perception of Group Entitativity, Variability, and Essence; Components of Homogeneity: A Multiple-Process Model of Social Categorization; Forming Stereotypes of Entitative Groups; From Basketball to Business: Expertise, Implicit Covariation, and Social Judgment; Gender Outgroup Homogeneity: The Roles of Differential Familiarity, Gender Differences, and Group Size; Group Size, Outcome Dependency, and Power: Effects on Perceived and Objective Group VariabilityThe Acquisition, Transmission, and Discussion of Social Stereotypes: Influences of Communication on Group Perceptions; Culture, Communication, and Entitativity: A Social Psychological Investigation of Social Reality; Group Socialization, Uncertainty Reduction, and the Development of New Members' Perceptions of Group Variability; Entitativity, Group Distinctiveness, and Social Identity: Getting and Using Social Structure; Social Identity as the Basis of Group Entitativity: Elaborating the Case for the ~Science of Social Groups Per Se~The Perception of Outgroup Threat: Content and Activation of the Outgroup Schema; The Maintenance of Entitativity: A Subjective Group Dynamics Approach; On the Advantages of Reifying the Ingroup; Uncertainty and Extremism: Identification with High Entitativity Groups under Conditions of Uncertainty; Entitativity and Social Integration: Managing Beliefs about the Reality of Groups; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This groundbreaking work by leading social psychologists, who have all contributed in important ways to the psychology of group perception, focuses in particular on three interrelated issues: (1) whether groups are seen to be diverse or relatively homogeneous; (2) whether groups are seen as real and stable or only transitory and ephemeral; and (3) whether group membership derives from some essential quality of the members or rather is based on social constructions.