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  • 1.  Category typicality

    Posted 03-18-2010 11:40
    Dear colleagues,

    We are studying how individuals assess co-workers' prototypicality in organizations. We are trying to find some more general theoretical grounding and we are looking for previous research and references  (e.g., in cognitive psychology) on how individuals assess category typicality.  

    Do you have any suggestions?

    Thank you very much for your help,

    Elisa Mattarelli




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    Assistant Professor of Management
    School of Management Engineering
    University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
    Via Amendola 2, Pad. Morselli
    42100 Reggio Emilia, Italy
    Tel.: 0039 0522 522275
    Fax: 0039 0522 522609
    email: elisa.mattarelli@unimore.it





  • 2.  Category typicality

    Posted 03-24-2010 00:32
    Dear Prof. Mattarelli,

    Gregory Murphy's "Big Book of Concepts" is a very readable expert introduction to cognitive psychological research on categories, and has a chapter reviewing research on typicality.

    Larry Barsalou has a classic 1985 JEP:LMC empirical paper measuring typicality in several different ways:
    http://www.psychology.emory.edu/cognition/barsalou/papers/Barsalou_JEPLMC_1985_determinants_graded_structure.pdf

    For a more recent examination, see Russ Burnet and Doug Medin's paper,
    http://groups.psych.northwestern.edu/medin/documents/BurnettMedin2005idealistypical.pdf

    Susan Gelman's book on essentialism, "The Essential Child," has a nice section on differentiating category membership from category typicality. Hannan, Polos and Carroll examine some of the same issues early in their book  "Logics of Organizational Theory."

    All best,

    Jeffrey Loewenstein
    Assistant Professor, Department of Management
    McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
    http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/faculty/Jeffrey.Loewenstein/
    (512) 475-8020,  (512) 471-3937 (fax)
    jeffrey.loewenstein@mccombs.utexas.edu



    From: Elisa Mattarelli <elisa.mattarelli@UNIMORE.IT>
    Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:39:38 -0500
    Subject: Category typicality

    Dear colleagues,

    We are studying how individuals assess co-workers' prototypicality in organizations. We are trying to find some more general theoretical grounding and we are looking for previous research and references  (e.g., in cognitive psychology) on how individuals assess category typicality.  

    Do you have any suggestions?

    Thank you very much for your help,

    Elisa Mattarelli




    --
    Elisa Mattarelli, PhD
    Assistant Professor of Management
    School of Management Engineering
    University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
    Via Amendola 2, Pad. Morselli
    42100 Reggio Emilia, Italy
    Tel.: 0039 0522 522275
    Fax: 0039 0522 522609
    email: elisa.mattarelli@unimore.it


  • 3.  Category typicality

    Posted 03-24-2010 07:07

    If you haven't already, you might take a look at Buss and Craik's (1983) Psych, Review article on the act-frequency approach to category definition

     

    E. Kevin Kelloway, Ph.D

    Canada Research Chair In Occupational Health Psychology

    Director, CN Centre for Occupational Health and Safety

    Saint Mary's University

    Halifax, NS

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    (902) 491 8616

     

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    Dear colleagues,

    We are studying how individuals assess co-workers' prototypicality in organizations. We are trying to find some more general theoretical grounding and we are looking for previous research and references  (e.g., in cognitive psychology) on how individuals assess category typicality.  

    Do you have any suggestions?

    Thank you very much for your help,

    Elisa Mattarelli




    --
    Elisa Mattarelli, PhD
    Assistant Professor of Management
    School of Management Engineering
    University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
    Via Amendola 2, Pad. Morselli
    42100 Reggio Emilia, Italy
    Tel.: 0039 0522 522275
    Fax: 0039 0522 522609
    email: elisa.mattarelli@unimore.it




  • 4.  Category typicality

    Posted 03-24-2010 08:40
    Dear Eliza, The late Jerry Hunt and colleagues wrote about leadership prototypes in a wide ranging article in LQ.

    Hunt, J.G., Boal, Kimberly B. and ., Ritch L. 1990. Top management leadership: Inside the black box. The Leadership Quarterly, 1, 41-65.

    it has many suggestgions. You might find it interesting.

    Kim Boal
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    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Elisa Mattarelli [elisa.mattarelli@UNIMORE.IT]
    Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:39 AM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: [OB-LIST] Category typicality

    Dear colleagues,

    We are studying how individuals assess co-workers’ prototypicality in organizations. We are trying to find some more general theoretical grounding and we are looking for previous research and references (e.g., in cognitive psychology) on how individuals assess category typicality.

    Do you have any suggestions?

    Thank you very much for your help,

    Elisa Mattarelli




    --
    Elisa Mattarelli, PhD
    Assistant Professor of Management
    School of Management Engineering
    University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
    Via Amendola 2, Pad. Morselli
    42100 Reggio Emilia, Italy
    Tel.: 0039 0522 522275
    Fax: 0039 0522 522609
    email: elisa.mattarelli@unimore.it


  • 5.  Category typicality

    Posted 03-24-2010 14:54
    Hi:

    Take a look at the work of Robert G. Lord (and some of the classics he
    cites). Although applied to leadership, it should get you started:

    Cronshaw, S. F., & Lord, R. G. (1987). Effects of categorization,
    attribution, and encoding processes on leadership perceptions. /Journal
    of Applied Psychology, 72/(1), 97-106.

    Lord, R. G., Brown, D. J., Harvey, J. L., & Hall, R. J. (2001).
    Contextual Constraints on Prototype Generation and their Multilevel
    Consequences for Leadership Perceptions. /The Leadership Quarterly, 12/,
    311-338.

    Lord, R. G., Foti, R. J., & De Vader, C. L. (1984). A Test of Leadership
    Categorization Theory: Internal Structure, Information Processing, and
    Leadership Perceptions. /Organizational Behavior and Human Performance,
    34/, 343-378.

    Best,
    J.

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    On 18.03.2010 16:39, Elisa Mattarelli wrote:
    > Dear colleagues,
    >
    > We are studying how individuals assess co-workers’ prototypicality in
    > organizations. We are trying to find some more general theoretical
    > grounding and we are looking for previous research and references
    > (e.g., in cognitive psychology) on how individuals assess* category
    > typicality*.
    >
    > Do you have any suggestions?
    >
    > Thank you very much for your help,
    >
    > Elisa Mattarelli
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > --
    > Elisa Mattarelli, PhD
    > Assistant Professor of Management
    > School of Management Engineering
    > University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
    > Via Amendola 2, Pad. Morselli
    > 42100 Reggio Emilia, Italy
    > Tel.: 0039 0522 522275
    > Fax: 0039 0522 522609
    > email: elisa.mattarelli@unimore.it
    >
    >
    >