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Inherence heuristic versus essentialism: Issues of antecedence and cognitive mechanism

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Yzerbyt, Vincent [UCL] Demoulin, Stéphanie [UCL]

We argue (1) that the empirical evidence offered by the authors is insufficient to sustain their claim; (2) that, beyond methodological problems, the proposed underlying cognitive mechanism is largely speculative and that a reverse, more motivational, path is equally plausible; and (3) that the distinction and antecedence of inherence intuitions with respect to essentialist beliefs remain to be demonstrated.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2014
Language Anglais
Journal information "Behavioral and Brain Sciences : an international journal of current research and theory with open peer commentary" - Vol. 37, no. 5, p. 505-506 (2014)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Cambridge University Press (Cambridge)
issn 0140-525X
e-issn 1469-1825
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
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Bibliographic reference Yzerbyt, Vincent ; Demoulin, Stéphanie. Inherence heuristic versus essentialism: Issues of antecedence and cognitive mechanism. In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences : an international journal of current research and theory with open peer commentary, Vol. 37, no. 5, p. 505-506 (2014)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/159282