Psychological essentialism in context : the influence of socio-cultural context and self-identity on essentialising social categories

The aim of this thesis was to investigate some aspects of essentialist beliefs about other people. The empirical part of the thesis is constituted by four investigations. Study 1 and 2 built on some earlier work on essentialist beliefs about social categories, and supported previous findings about t...

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Main Author: Pischedda, Roberta
Other Authors: Hampton, J. A.; Bowler, D. M.
Published: City University London 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.629981