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- Title
Biological Essentialism Correlates With (But Doesn't Cause?) Intergroup Bias.
- Authors
Bailey, April H.; Knobe, Joshua
- Abstract
People with biological essentialist beliefs about social groups also tend to endorse biased beliefs about individuals in those groups, including intensified emphasis on the group, stereotypes, and prejudices. These correlations could be due to biological essentialism causing bias, and some experimental studies support this causal direction. Given this prior work, we expected to find that biological essentialism would lead to increased bias compared with a control condition and set out to extend this prior work in a new direction (regarding "value-based" essentialism). But although the manipulation affected essentialist beliefs and essentialist beliefs were correlated with group emphasis (Study 1), stereotyping (Studies 2, 3a, 3b, and 3c), prejudice (Studies 3a), there was no evidence that biological essentialism caused these outcomes (N Total = 1,903). Given these findings, our initial research question became moot. We thus focus on reexamining the relationship between essentialism and bias.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGICAL essentialism; SOCIAL groups; PREJUDICES; RESEARCH questions; STEREOTYPES
- Publication
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 2024, Vol 50, Issue 7, p1080
- ISSN
0146-1672
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/01461672231158095