HCBE Faculty Presentations
Title
Linking Group Entitativity and Perceivers’ Implicit Theories to Collective Blame
Event Location / Date(s)
Savannah, GA
Document Type
Conference Presentation
Presentation Date
10-10-2014
Conference Name / Publication Title
Southern Management Association 2014 Meeting
Description
The questions of whether, why, and when perceivers assign blame to members of a group besides the member(s) who directly caused a negative outcome are examined. Two experiments provide evidence that: 1. Higher levels of group entitativity are linked to higher levels of collective blame, 2. This link is mediated by inferences that group members (a) indirectly caused the act, and (b) share common character traits with the wrongdoer, and 3. Perceivers’ implicit theories about people’s traits are associated with systematic differences in the inferences they favor in associating entitativity with collective blame.
NSUWorks Citation
Wurthmann, Kurt, "Linking Group Entitativity and Perceivers’ Implicit Theories to Collective Blame" (2014). HCBE Faculty Presentations. 1255.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcbe_facpres/1255
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