The inherence heuristic: An intuitive means of making sense of the world, and a potential precursor to psychological essentialism

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 461-480

  Cimpian, Andrei ^a   Salomon, Erika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

correspondence bias; development; essentialism; explanation; inherence heuristic; is ought problem; nominal realism; system justification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; ESSENTIALISM; HUMAN; INHERENCE HEURISTIC; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; CONCEPT FORMATION; INTUITION; LEARNING; LOGIC; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; THINKING;

COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; INTUITION; LEARNING; LOGIC; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; THINKING;

EID: 84927692005     PISSN: 0140525X     EISSN: 14691825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X13002197     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Evans's (2006) relevance principle refers to "the powerful tendency to contextualize all problems with reference to prior knowledge elicited by contextual cues and the current goals that are being pursued" (p. 380).
2. http://www.mrbreakfast.com/ask.asp?askid=26 (accessed May 19, 2013).