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In genes we trust: the biological component of psychological essentialism and its relationship to mechanisms of motivated social cognition.
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Results speak to the reliability and validity of the scale and show that essentialist beliefs are associated with basic social-cognitive motives and are also related to processes of stereotyping and prejudice.Abstract:
Three studies analyzed the biological component of psychological essentialism (laypeople's belief that social categories have an underlying nature/natural foundation) as it pertains to mechanisms of motivated social cognition. A new scale assessing the belief in genetic determinism is introduced as a measure of the biological component of essentialism. Results speak to the reliability and validity of the scale and show that essentialist beliefs are associated with basic social-cognitive motives and are also related to processes of stereotyping and prejudice. An experimental study found that rendering essentialist information salient elicits increased levels of prejudice and in-group bias, particularly in persons holding chronic essentialist beliefs.read more
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Social class, solipsism, and contextualism: how the rich are different from the poor.
Michael W. Kraus,Paul K. Piff,Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton,Michelle L. Rheinschmidt,Dacher Keltner +4 more
TL;DR: This framework describes how class-based contextualist and solipsistic tendencies shape the self, perceptions of the social environment, and relationships to other individuals and details 9 hypotheses and relevant empirical evidence concerning how class influences behavior.
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The essence of innocence: Consequences of dehumanizing Black children.
Phillip Atiba Goff,Matthew Christian Jackson,Brooke Allison Lewis Di Leone,Carmen M. Culotta,Natalie Ann DiTomasso +4 more
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The Psychology of Worldviews
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Genetic essentialism: on the deceptive determinism of DNA.
Ilan Dar-Nimrod,Steven J. Heine +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reviewed research on people's understanding of race, gender, sexual orientation, criminality, mental illness, and obesity through a genetic essentialism lens, highlighting attitudinal, cognitive, and behavioral changes that stem from consideration of genetic attributions as bases of these categories.
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Social Inequality and the Reduction of Ideological Dissonance on Behalf of the System: Evidence of Enhanced System Justification among the Disadvantaged
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