Social Categorization and the Representation of Variability Information
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in European Review of Social Psychology
- Vol. 2 (1) , 211-245
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14792779143000079
Abstract
We present two models of social category representation, one exemplar-based and one abstraction-based. We examine these with respect to five factors that influence the magnitude of perceived variability: actual level of variability among group members, dependent measures used by experimenters, encoding effects, retrieval effects, and increasing familiarity with group members.Keywords
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