The essence of essentialism?
As an account of the cognitive processes that support psychological essentialism, the inherence heuristic clarifies the basis of individual differences in essentialist thinking, and how they are associated with prejudice. It also illuminates the contextual variability of social essentialism, and where its conceptual boundaries should be drawn.
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne,Parkville VIC 3010,Australia.nhaslam@unimelb.edu.auhttp://www.psych.unimelb.edu.au/people/nick-haslam.
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D003071:Cognition; D003210:Concept Formation; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008128:Logic