Essentially Biased: Why People Are Fatalistic About Genes

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2017, Pages 137-192

  Heine, S J ^a   Dar Nimrod, I ^b   Cheung, B Y ^a   Proulx, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Essentialism; Eugenics; Genetics; Genomics; Prejudice health; Reasoning biases; Sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007492952     PISSN: 00652601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.aesp.2016.10.003     Document Type: Chapter

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