Not Just for Stereotyping Anymore: Racial Essentialism Reduces Domain-General Creativity

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 99-105

  Tadmor, Carmit T ^a   Chao, Melody M ^b   Hong, Ying yi ^c,d   Polzer, Jeffrey T ^e  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

categorical thinking; closed mindedness; cognitive style; creativity; essentialism; lay theories of race; motivated cognition; racial and ethnic attitudes and relations; social cognition; social construction; stereotyping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872285724     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612452570     Document Type: Article

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