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The essence of essentialism?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2014
Abstract
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.
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Refining and expanding the proposal of an inherence heuristic in human understanding