Implicit essentialism: genetic concepts are implicitly associated with fate concepts.

Implicit essentialism: genetic concepts are implicitly associated with fate concepts.

Genetic essentialism is the tendency for people to think in more essentialist ways upon encountering genetic concepts. The current studies assessed whether genetic essentialist biases would also be evident at the automatic level. In two studies, using different versions of the Implicit Association T...

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Main Authors: Wren A Gould, Steven J Heine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3369887?pdf=render
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spelling doaj-7582062a954a4fa78d5a80fa27b1080b2020-11-24T21:35:23ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032012-01-0176e3817610.1371/journal.pone.0038176Implicit essentialism: genetic concepts are implicitly associated with fate concepts.Wren A GouldSteven J HeineGenetic essentialism is the tendency for people to think in more essentialist ways upon encountering genetic concepts. The current studies assessed whether genetic essentialist biases would also be evident at the automatic level. In two studies, using different versions of the Implicit Association Test, we found that participants were faster to categorize when genes and fate were linked, compared to when these two concepts were kept separate and opposing. In addition to the wealth of past findings of genetic essentialism with explicit and deliberative measures, these biases appear to be also evident with implicit measures.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3369887?pdf=render
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title_short Implicit essentialism: genetic concepts are implicitly associated with fate concepts.
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description Genetic essentialism is the tendency for people to think in more essentialist ways upon encountering genetic concepts. The current studies assessed whether genetic essentialist biases would also be evident at the automatic level. In two studies, using different versions of the Implicit Association Test, we found that participants were faster to categorize when genes and fate were linked, compared to when these two concepts were kept separate and opposing. In addition to the wealth of past findings of genetic essentialism with explicit and deliberative measures, these biases appear to be also evident with implicit measures.
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