Essentialist thinking about depression: evidence for polarized beliefs.
Mixture modeling of 309 undergraduates' beliefs about the nature of depression yielded two polarized latent classes--those who held essentialist beliefs and those who did not--consistent with the view that essentialist thinking is a distinct cognitive mode.
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School of Behavioural Science, Department of Psychology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. .
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013240:Stereotyping; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D013850:Thinking