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Owning up to the role of historical information

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2014

Nicholaus S. Noles
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292. n.noles@louisville.edu http://louisville.edu/psychology/noles j.danovitch@louisville.edu http://louisville.edu/psychology/danovitch
Judith H. Danovitch
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292. n.noles@louisville.edu http://louisville.edu/psychology/noles j.danovitch@louisville.edu http://louisville.edu/psychology/danovitch

Abstract

Although the inherence heuristic is a versatile cognitive process that addresses a wide range of psychological phenomena, we propose that ownership information represents an important test case for evaluating both the boundaries of Cimpian & Salomon's (C&S's) model (e.g., is the inherence heuristic meaningfully limited to only inherent factors?) and its effectiveness as a mechanism for explaining psychological essentialism.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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