The Essential Child

Gelman, S. A. (2003). The Essential Child: Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought. Oxford University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2003

DOI

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195154061.001.0001

ISBN

0195154061

Link

https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195154061.001.0001

Cited from

philosophy

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• Essentialism
  • Psychological essentialism as cognitive default (Gelman, Medin): young children treat categories (especially animal and gender categories) as having hidden essences causing observable properties ,

    This sourceSynthesizes evidence that young children spontaneously treat categories (esp. animal/biological kinds) as having hidden essences causing observable properties and persisting through transformation — supports the developmental-essentialism claims.

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