Los turistas nos visitan, los inmigrantes nos invaden. Un estudio de la percepción de amenaza desde el concepto de grupalidad percibida
- Rodríguez Pérez, Armando
- Betancor Rodríguez, Verónica
- Delgado Rodríguez, Naira
- Rodríguez Torres, Ramón
- Pacios, Alberto
ISSN: 0213-4748, 1579-3680
Año de publicación: 2008
Volumen: 23
Número: 1
Páginas: 41-52
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: International Journal of Social Psychology, Revista de Psicología Social
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Resumen
The concept of entitativity or perceived groupality, the degree to which we perceive a set of people as a compact group, is essential for explaining many differential aspects of group perception. However, the relation between entitativity and perceived threat has not yet received much attention. The present study was designed to examine whether groups categorized as entities are perceived as more threatening than groups categorized as mere aggregates of people. Participants answered a questionnaire measuring both entitativity and threat perception for six social categories and three aggregates. As predicted, results show that not all groups are perceived at the same level of entitativity, and high-entitativity groups are perceived as more threatening than low-entitativity groups. These results prove the value of the concept of entitativity for understanding the differential threat perception of social groups