transgressor and the displaced targ

transgressor and the displaced target. People experienced the most
satisfaction when the transgressor group was perceived to be strongly
interconnected and, at the same time, similar in appearance. As in
Study 2, no effects were found on feelings of regret. However, this
may be due to the poor reliability of the regret scale in this study.
In contrast to Studies 1 and 2, the strength of Study 3 is that participants were free to decide whether they wanted to take revenge or
not, and that participants actually took revenge (instead of merely
imagining doing so). This freedom to take revenge, however, led to a
large reduction in our sample size. Interestingly, while perceptions
of similarity and interconnectedness were both related to overall
entitativity ratings, these ratings only responded to the interconnectedness , but not the similarity manipulation. In this context, it should be
emphasized that entitativity is a multi-dimensional construct. As a
consequence, no clear consensus has been reached so far on how it
can be best manipulated and measured (see Hamilton, 2007). We
attempted to capture entitativity perceptions as broadly as possible,
but our measure was possibly not sensitive enough to detect changes
of mere superficial similarity. In addition, and consistent with previous
findings, our results corroborate the notion that mutual interaction
(or interconnectedness) is the primary predictor of entitativity
(e.g., Gaertner, luzzini, Witt, & Orifla, 2006; Lickel et al., 2000).