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SUBMITTER: Gould WA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3369887 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gould Wren A WA Heine Steven J SJ
PloS one 20120607 6
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 findin ...[more]