Is it about "pink" or about "girls"? The inherence heuristic across social and nonsocial domains.
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The inherence heuristic provides an intriguing and novel explanation for early thought in a variety of domains. Exploring similarities and differences in inherent reasoning across social and nonsocial domains can help us understand the role that inherent thinking plays in the development of human reasoning and the process by which more elaborate essentialist reasoning develops.
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The inherence heuristic: an intuitive means of making sense of the world, and a potential precursor to psychological essentialism.
We propose that human reasoning relies on an inherence heuristic, an implicit cognitive process that leads people to explain observed patterns (e.g., girls wear pink) predominantly in terms of the inherent features of their constituents (e.g., pink is a delicate color). We then demonstrate how this proposed heuristic can provide a unified account for a broad set of findings spanning areas of re...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Behavioral and brain sciences
دوره 37 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014