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View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present research examines whether identity essentialism, an important component of psychological essentialism, is a fundamental feature of human cognition. Across three studies (N = 1723), we report evidence that essentialist intuitions about the identity of kinds are culturally dependent, demographically variable, and easily malleable. The first study considered essentialist intuitions in 10 different countries spread across four continents.
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Department of Pharmaceutics, National Organization of Drug Control and Research (NODCAR), Giza, Egypt.
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