In search of the elusive essence: Heuristics in the essentialization process
| Autor: | Arvanitis, Alexiοs, Hantzi, Alexandra |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| DOI: | 10.26248/eleutherna.v8i0.85 |
| Popis: | Drawing mostly from the field of cognitive psychology we treat essentialism as a bias under which social categories are perceived as having an underlying “hidden” cause feature. Study 1 shows how social categories can be separated into essentialized and nonessentialized according to inability to explain the core characteristics of the categories. Study 2 provides a link between inability to explain the core characteristics of the category and a general illusory correlational procedure that links the category to its characteristics. Study 3 links essentialism to a justice heuristic that leads to the naturalization of differences among categories. Based on the findings, an account of the cognitive process of essentialization is discussed, as a process that arguably starts from an inability to explain core characteristics of a category, builds on illusory correlation between the category and its characteristics and establishes the naturalization of differences among categories. ELEUTHERNA, Vol. 8 (2016): ΤΟΜΟΣ ΟΓΔΟΟΣ / VOLUME VΙΙI |
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