ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Essentialist Thinking about Social Categories in the USA and Northern Ireland
- John Coley
Northeastern University - Aidan Feeney
Queen's University, Belfast - Meredith Cohen-Pilat
Northeastern University - Jocelyn Dautel
Queen's University, Belfast - R. Cole Eidson
Northeastern University - Kirsty Smyth
Queen's University Belfast
Abstract
Participants from Belfast and Boston rated 30 social categories on 9 dimensions of social essentialism. Results replicated Haslam’s factors of naturalness and cohesiveness, but race categories were more highly essentialized in the US, whereas religion categories were more highly essentialized in NI, consistent with salient socio-historical conflict in each society.
Social Cognition
