Does the inherence heuristic take us to psychological essentialism?

作者:Marmodoro Anna*; Murphy Robin A; Baker A G
来源:Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014, 37(5): 494-495.
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X13003798

摘要

We argue that the claim that essence-based causal explanations emerge, hydra-like, from an inherence heuristic is incomplete. No plausible mechanism for the transition from concrete properties, or cues, to essences is provided. Moreover, the fundamental shotgun and storytelling mechanisms of the inherence heuristic are not clearly enough specified to distinguish them, developmentally, from associative or causal networks.

  • 出版日期2014-10
  • 单位McGill

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