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entitativity

entitativity

English

Noun

entitativity (uncountable)

  1. (psychology) The perception of a group as a single entity, distinct from its members.
    • 2014 August 25, Sammyh S Khan et al., “Efficacy and well-being in rural north India: The role of social identification with a large-scale community identity”, in European Journal of Social Psychology, volume 44, DOI:10.1002/ejsp.2060:
      Although there may be different bases for group entitativity in non-Western contexts, Yuki et al. (2005) observe that this does not undermine the significance of group memberships for cognition and behavior.