The Essential Child¶
Gelman, S. A. (2003). The Essential Child: Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought. Oxford University Press.
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Primes¶
- 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.
- Psychological essentialism as cognitive default (Gelman, Medin): young children treat categories (especially animal and gender categories) as having hidden essences causing observable properties ,
Mechanisms¶
- Stereotype Audit
- This is the archetype's own warning that a language edit is not the intervention; the pull toward it is strong because our minds treat category labels as pointers to hidden essences in the first place.
This sourceDefines psychological essentialism as treating category labels as referring to an underlying true nature that determines identity.
- This is the archetype's own warning that a language edit is not the intervention; the pull toward it is strong because our minds treat category labels as pointers to hidden essences in the first place.
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