Department of Psychology, Yale University.
J Exp Psychol Gen. 2020 Jul;149(7):1344-1359. doi: 10.1037/xge0000711. Epub 2019 Nov 7.
We investigate ordinary concepts of institutional groups: stable, cooperative, and socially constructed entities like clubs, companies, and academic departments. We use a transformation paradigm to examine participants' causal beliefs about how groups exist and persist over time. We consider whether participants believe groups are grounded in collective recognition or function. Participants' default views about groups see them as persisting because the members or a relevant third-party collectively recognize the members as belonging to a group (Studies 1-4). Social groups are dual-character though (Studies 5-8). There is a second sense: the group. This judgment is grounded in whether the group realizes its basic function. This sense is more influenced by participants' own ideological commitments. Thus, participants can disagree about whether a group exists even if they agree about the bare facts. We discuss implications for theories of conceptual representation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
稳定的、合作的、以及像俱乐部、公司和学术部门这样具有社会建构的实体。我们使用转换范式来考察参与者关于群体如何存在和随着时间推移而持续的因果信念。我们考虑参与者是否认为群体是基于集体认可还是功能而存在。参与者关于群体的默认观点认为它们会持续存在，因为成员或相关的第三方共同认可成员属于一个群体（研究 1-4）。然而，社会群体具有双重特征（研究 5-8）。还有第二种意义：群体本身。这种判断基于群体是否实现了其基本功能。这种意义更受参与者自身意识形态承诺的影响。因此，即使参与者对基本事实达成一致，他们也可能对一个群体是否存在存在分歧。我们讨论了这些发现对概念表示理论的影响。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。
