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Genetic essentialism: on the deceptive determinism of DNA.

Psychological bulletin - 1 Sept 2011

Dar-Nimrod Ilan, Heine Steven J

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This article introduces the notion of genetic essentialist biases: cognitive biases associated with essentialist thinking that are elicited when people encounter arguments that genes are relevant for a behavior, condition, or social group. Learning about genetic attributions for various human conditions leads to a particular set of thoughts regarding those conditions: they are more likely to be perceived as (a)...

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PMID: 21142350
DOI: 10.1037/a0021860
PMCID: PMC3394457

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