Attributing Mind to Groups and Their Members on Two Dimensions.

ABSTRACT: Psychological research has revealed that people attribute mental states to groups such as companies, especially to those groups that are highly entitative. Moreover, attributing a mind to a group results in the decreased attribution of mind to individual group members. Recent research has demonstrated that the minds of others are perceived in two dimensions-agency and experience. The present study investigated the possibility that this two-dimensional structure exists in mind attribution to groups, and group entitativity has different patterns of relations with these dimensions. A vignette experiment revealed that highly entitative groups were attributed both agency and experience to greater degrees compared to non-entitative groups, while group entitativity reduced only the attribution of

SUBMITTER: Tanibe T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6491843 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature