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Direct linkMeyer, Meredith; Leslie, Sarah-Jane; Gelman, Susan A.; Stilwell, Sarah M. – Cognitive Science, 2013
Psychological essentialism is the belief that some internal, unseen essence or force determines the common outward appearances and behaviors of category members. We investigated whether reasoning about transplants of bodily elements showed evidence of essentialist thinking. Both Americans and Indians endorsed the possibility of transplants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Body, Donors, Philosophy
