Does the inherence heuristic take us to psychological essentialism?

Marmodoro, Anna; Murphy, Robin A.; Baker, A.G.

Abstract

We argue that the claim that essence-based causal explanations emerge, hydra-like, from an inherence heuristic is incomplete. No plausible mechanism for the transition from concrete properties, or cues, to essences is provided. Moreover, the fundamental shotgun and storytelling mechanisms of the inherence heuristic are not clearly enough specified to distinguish them, developmentally, from associative or causal networks.

Citation

Marmodoro, A., Murphy, R. A., & Baker, A. (2014). Does the inherence heuristic take us to psychological essentialism?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(05), 494-495. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x13003798

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Oct 24, 2014
• Publication Date: 2014-10
• Deposit Date: Aug 11, 2017
• Journal: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• Print ISSN: 0140-525X
• Electronic ISSN: 1469-1825
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 37
• Issue: 05
• Pages: 494-495
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x13003798
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1352588