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The essence of essentialism?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2014

Nick Haslam
Nick Haslam*
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School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia. nhaslam@unimelb.edu.au http://www.psych.unimelb.edu.au/people/nick-haslam
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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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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 5 , October 2014 , pp. 491 - 492
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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