September 2021
Volume 21, Issue 9
Open Access
Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting Abstract  |   September 2021
Members of highly entitative groups are implicitly expected to behave consistently based on their deep-level goals instead of their shallow-level movements
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Jun Yin
    Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
  • Jipeng Duan
    Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
    East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
  • Jiecheng Huangliang
    Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
  • Yinfeng Hu
    Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
  • Feng Zhang
    Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
  • Footnotes
    Acknowledgements  This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 31871091), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Provincial Universities of Zhejiang (Grant no. SJWZ2020001)
Journal of Vision September 2021, Vol.21, 2064. doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.9.2064
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      Jun Yin, Jipeng Duan, Jiecheng Huangliang, Yinfeng Hu, Feng Zhang; Members of highly entitative groups are implicitly expected to behave consistently based on their deep-level goals instead of their shallow-level movements. Journal of Vision 2021;21(9):2064. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.9.2064.

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Abstract

The current study investigated whether the deep properties or shallow features of behaviors are implicitly expected to be consistent across members of highly entitative groups by exploiting the notion that goals—as deep properties—and movements—as shallow features—can be dissociated in object-directed behaviors. Participants were asked to view group members’ goal-directed behaviors toward an object. Whether perceivers implicitly expected that a new member would perform the same movement to the previously visited location (i.e., exhibit shallow feature-based behavior) or a new movement to the previously visited object (i.e., exhibit deep property-based behavior) was recorded. Study 1 revealed that perceivers implicitly expected members of a highly entitative group to approach the previously visited object with a new movement (i.e., to have a consistent goal) rather than perform the same movement to the previously visited location (i.e., to express a consistent movement). Study 2 confirmed that the responses in Study 1 were explained by group members conforming to, rather than violating, internal expectations (i.e., of consistent movement). Importantly, the implicit expectation of shared behaviors across group members relies on the goal interpretation of actions instead of the associations between actions and outcomes (Study 3). Study 4 replicated the facilitation effect of Study 1 and revealed that the goal-based expectation of common behaviors among group members is based on the majority behavior instead of a single demonstration. Hence, individuals in highly entitative groups are implicitly expected to behave consistently based on the deep properties of behaviors instead of their shallow features.

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