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SUBMITTER: Ahn WK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4119874 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ahn Woo-kyoung WK Taylor Eric G EG Kato Daniel D Marsh Jessecae K JK Bloom Paul P
Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) 20121025 6
The current study examines causal essentialism, derived from psychological essentialism of concepts. We examine whether people believe that members of a category share some underlying essence that is both necessary and sufficient for category membership and that also causes surface features. The main claim is that causal essentialism is restricted to categories that correspond to our intuitive notions of existing kinds and hence is more attenuated for categories that are based on arbitrary crite ...[more]