Psychological essentialism and stereotype endorsement

By Brock Bastian, Nick Haslam. 2006

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

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Beyond nature and nurture: The influence of lay gender theories on self-stereotyping (2008, background): “Because it has been shown that biological beliefs can be differentiated from implicit theories of the malleability of human attributes (Bastian & Haslam, 2006; Keller, 2005), we predict that lay gender theories should be distinctive from the implicit theories of human attributes.”
When group membership gets personal: a theory of identity fusion. (2012, background): “Such essentialistic thinking has implications for how people perceive groups (Bastian & Haslam, 2006, 2007) as well as how they respond to markers of group membership (Bastian & Haslam, 2008; Bastian, Loughnan, & Koval, 2011; Chao, Chen, Roismann, & Hong, 2007; M. J. Williams & Eberhardt, 2008).”
Psychological Essentialism of Human Categories (2007, background): “Beginning with correlational studies, Bastian and Haslam (2006) showed that the stronger an individual’s essentialist beliefs about human categories, the more likely he or she is to endorse stereotypes across nine different social categories.”
The Intersections of Sexuality, Gender, and Race: Identity Research at the Crossroads (2013, background): “Similarly, Bowleg (2012) demonstrates identity-making as experienced by biracial and gay Black men.”
Gender-Inclusive Bathrooms Signal Fairness Across Identity Dimensions (2018, background): “For example, gender and racial essentialist beliefs are also predictive of negative stereotyping and prejudice toward women and Blacks and Latinos, respectively (Bastian & Haslam, 2006; Demoulin, Leyens, & Yzerbyt, 2006; Yzerbyt & Rocher, 2002).”
Understanding the Relationship Between Perceived Authenticity and Well-Being (2019, background): “…essentialism is widespread in human cognition, with people holding essentialist understandings of social categories such as race and gender (e.g., Bastian & Haslam, 2006; Haslam, Rothschild, & Ernst, 2000; Williams & Eberhardt, 2008) and natural categories like animal species (e.g., Atran et…”
Diversity in the person, diversity in the group: Challenges of identity complexity for social perception and social interaction (2009, background): “Bastian and Haslam (2006) provided evidence that individuals who endorse essentialist beliefs in a general way tended to endorse stereotypes about a number of different social groups, suggesting the operation of a general lay theory (see also Molden & Dweck, 2006).”
Personality Profiles and the “Russian Soul”: Literary and Scholarly Views Evaluated (2011, background): “Bastian and Haslam (2006) claimed that people who believe in the immutability of human attributes and character—essentialists or entity theorists—“are particularly prone to endorse social stereotypes and to explain them with reference to innate factors” (p. 228).”
Genetic Essentialism: On the Deceptive Determinism of DNA (2011, background): “…Biological Basis (of Essentialism) Scale (example item: “The kind of person someone is can be largely attributed to [his or her] genetic inheritance”) correlates positively with the degree to which people endorsed a variety of stereotypes regarding different social groups (Bastian & Haslam, 2006).”
Lay Theories of Personality: Cornerstones of Meaning in Social Cognition (2009, background): “Further studies by Bastian and Haslam (2006) provided evidence that one cause for fixedness, from the entity perspective, is biological.”
Gender and Emotion (2013, background): “As would be expected, there is a link between essentialist beliefs and stereotypes (Brock & Haslam, 2006).”
Biogenetic Explanations of Mental Disorder (2015, background): “In addition to deepening and accentuating social divides by portraying social groups as homogeneous and categorically different, essentialist thinking is associated with greater endorsement of social stereotypes (Bastian & Haslam, 2006).”
Attributing and denying humanness to others (2008, background): “Consistent with evidence that dispositional essentialists are especially apt to endorse stereotypes (Bastian & Haslam, 2006 ), Bastian and Haslam ( in press ) found correlational evidence that more essentialist participants held more negative views of these immigrants, attributing less desirable tr”