Essentialist beliefs about social categories.

By Nick Haslam, Louis Rothschild, D. Ernst. British Journal of Social Psychology, 2000

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Dimensions of Folk Psychiatry (2005, background): “Haslam, Rothschild, and Ernst (2000, 2002) proposed that natural kind thinking involves beliefs that a social category has a sharp boundary, defining properties, a natural basis, historical invariance, and immutable membership.”
Psychological Essentialism, Implicit Theories, and Intergroup Relations (2006, methodology): “In the first of these studies, Haslam, Rothschild and Ernst (2002) examined the individual difference structure of beliefs about three social categories (i.e. women, gay men, and African Americans), using ratings on eight of the nine items developed by Haslam et al. (2000).”
The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine Creativity (2013, background): “These findings make sense in that low essentialists are by definition more malleable in their beliefs about a given domain than high essentialists (Haslam et al., 2000).”
Beyond secondary emotions: The infrahumanization of outgroups using human-related and animal-related words (2006, background): “, Demoulin, Leyens, Paladino, Rodriguez, Rodriguez, & Dovidio, 2004; Leyens et al., 2001; Vaes, Paladino, Castelli, Leyens, & Giovanazzi, 2003). Leyens et al. (2000) argue that if people are biased toward favoring their own group and are prone to essentializing groups, then people should choose the ”
Biological Essentialism, Gender Ideologies, and Role Attitudes: What Determines Parents’ Involvement in Child Care (2006, background): “Psychologists have recently become increasingly interested in people’s beliefs that social groups have essences that differentiate them from other groups and that make them who they are (e.g., Haslam, Rothschild, & Ernst, 2000; Leyens et al., 2000; Rothbart & Taylor, 1992).”
Attributing and denying humanness to others (2008, result): “This contradiction holds if essentialism is understood to refer to underlying, biologically based, immutable, and identity-defining causal factors, as it is in most prior work on psychological essentialism (eg, Haslam, Rothschild, & Ernst, 2000 ).”
Race as a Bundle of Sticks: Designs that Estimate Effects of Seemingly Immutable Characteristics (2016, background): “Other scholars argue the essentialist view is associated with, " beliefs that a given social category is discrete, uniform , informative, . . . natural, immutable, stable, inherent, exclusive, and necessary. . . " (Haslam, Rothschild, and Ernst (2000); Morning (2011, 12)).”
Mechanisms of Political Radicalization: Pathways Toward Terrorism (2008, background): “A group’s essence is the hidden something shared by group members that gives them their tendency toward shared group characteristics.(70) A group’s essence is understood”
Lay Theories of Essentialism (2006, positive): “An increasing number of social psychologists now rely on subjective essentialism to examine lay perceptions of social groups (Haslam et al., 2000; Yzerbyt et al., 2004; Yzerbyt, Rocher, & Schadron, 1997).”
Psychological Essentialism of Human Categories (2007, methodology): “Figure 1 illustrates this variability, drawing on data from a recent study by Haslam, Rothschild, and Ernst (2000), in which American participants rated 40 human categories on five dimensions associated with essentialism: naturalness, stability, discreteness of category boundaries, immutability of…”
Multicultural recognition and ethnic minority rights: A social identity perspective (2006, background): “Haslam, Rothschild and Ernst ( 2000 ) concluded that the concept has several discernible elements or criteria, such as ideas about inductive potential, exclusivity, and necessary features (see also McGarty, S.”
Vicarious Shame and Guilt (2005, methodology): “In particular, we selected three group memberships that, based on past research (e.g. Haslam et al., 2000; Lickel et al., 2000), we expected would differ in their degree of interdependence and shared identity.”
Culture, essentialism, and agency: Are individuals universally believed to be more real entities than groups? (2005, background): “Haslam et al. (2000, 2002) too found that a belief in a biological basis of social categories is an aspect of essentialism in the US.”
Defending the Sex/Gender Binary: The Role of Gender Identification and Need for Closure (2020, background): “…the gender/sex binary such as gender essentialism (i.e., the belief that women and men are two distinct, informative, and “natural” categories; Haslam et al., 2000) and the endorsement of gender/sex stereotypes, especially among men (as the socially advantaged group), and especially when…”