Psychological Essentialism, Implicit Theories, and Intergroup Relations

By Nick Haslam, Brock Bastian, P. Bain, Yoshihisa Kashima. 2006

238 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Ilan Dar-Nimrod
2. Ying-yi Hong
3. M. Hogg
4. Ronald Fischer
5. Sheri R. Levy
6. Chi-Yue Chiu
7. Steven J. Heine
8. M. Verkuyten

In Social Psychology

1. Ying-yi Hong
2. Chi-Yue Chiu
3. Sheri R. Levy
4. Ilan Dar-Nimrod
5. M. Hogg
6. Steven J. Heine
7. Ronald Fischer
8. M. Verkuyten

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Ying-yi Hong
2. Chi-Yue Chiu
3. Sheri R. Levy
4. Ilan Dar-Nimrod
5. M. Hogg
6. Steven J. Heine
7. Ronald Fischer
8. D. van Knippenberg

Citations in the corpus

• Lay Theories and Intergroup Relations (2006, methodology): “Examples are essentialism or entity theories (see e.g. Demoulin et al., 2006; Denson et al., 2006; Haslam et al., 2006; Jayaratne et al., 2006) and essentialist versus social contructivist theories of race (Chao & Hong, 2005; No & Hong, 2005).”
• Uncertain Self in a Changing World: A Foundation for Radicalisation, Populism, and Autocratic Leadership (2020, background): “…be added marked ethnocentrism (Brewer & Campbell, 1976), accentuated mistrust and fear of outsiders (Stephan, 2014), a view of normative group attributes as fixed underlying essences (essentialism – Haslam et al., 2006) and the potential to dehumanise outgroups (Haslam, 2006; Haslam et al., 2008).”
• Genetic Essentialism: On the Deceptive Determinism of DNA (2011, background): “As previously noted, much research reveals that people demonstrate psychological essentialism when they evaluate social groups (e.g., Gil-White, 2001; Haslam et al., 2006; Rothbart & Taylor, 1992).”
• Cross-cultural training effects on cultural essentialism beliefs and cultural intelligence. (2011, background): “, Haslam et al., 2000; Lickel, Rutchick, Hamilton, & Sherman, 2006). The implications of essentialist beliefs for intergroup relations are debated. Medin (1989) argued the notion of essentialism enables people to make sense of the world around them through a process of categorisation, assisting in c”
• Multicultural recognition and ethnic minority rights: A social identity perspective (2006, unknown): “Haslam, Bastian, Bain, & Kashima, 2006 ; Levy, West, & Ramirez, 2005 ).”