Implicit essentialism: Genetic concepts are implicitly associated with fate concepts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Gould, Wren A ^a   Heine, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC ESSENTIALISM; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; SOCIALIZATION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASSOCIATION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; GENETIC DETERMINISM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862006663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038176     Document Type: Article

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