Inherence heuristic versus essentialism: Issues of antecedence and cognitive mechanism.
We argue (1) that the empirical evidence offered by the authors is insufficient to sustain their claim; (2) that, beyond methodological problems, the proposed underlying cognitive mechanism is largely speculative and that a reverse, more motivational, path is equally plausible; and (3) that the distinction and antecedence of inherence intuitions with respect to essentialist beliefs remain to be demonstrated.
Institute for Research in Psychological Sciences, Université catholique de Louvain,B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve,Belgium.vincent.yzerbyt@uclouvain.bestephanie.demoulin@uclouvain.be.
Vincent Y
VY
Yzerbyt
Institute for Research in Psychological Sciences, Université catholique de Louvain,B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve,Belgium.vincent.yzerbyt@uclouvain.bestephanie.demoulin@uclouvain.be.
Stéphanie
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Demoulin
D003071:Cognition; D003210:Concept Formation; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008128:Logic