Browsing by Subject "lay theories"
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(2018-06-01)Five studies tested for evidence of teleological (i.e., function- or purpose-based) reasoning in the folk psychology of personal identity. Specifically, these studies tested the hypothesis that teleological processes give ...
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(2020-04-10)Psychological essentialism refers to the widespread belief that entities, such as kinds of animals or groups of people, have certain underlying immutable characteristics that are necessary for membership in a particular ...