We propose that people are genetic essentialists—that is, they tend to think of genetic
attributions as being immutable, of a specific etiology, natural, and dividing people into …

This article introduces the notion of genetic essentialist biases: cognitive biases associated
with essentialist thinking that are elicited when people encounter arguments that genes are …

In the last third of the twentieth century, humanists and social scientists argued that attention
to genetics would heighten already‐existing genetic determinism, which in turn would …

Since the inception of large‐scale human genome research, there has been much caution
about the risks of exacerbating a number of socially dangerous attitudes linked to human …

Genetic essentialism is the tendency for people to think in more essentialist ways upon
encountering genetic concepts. The current studies assessed whether genetic essentialist …

Genetic concepts are regularly used in arguments about racial inequality. This review
summarizes research about the relationship between genetics education and a particular …

Research linking genetic differences with human social and behavioural phenotypes has
long been controversial. Frequently, debates about the ethical, social and legal implications …

Social scientists have predicted that individuals who occupy socially privileged positions or
who have conservative political orientations are most likely to endorse the idea that genes …

Genetic essentialism of race is the belief that racial groups have different underlying genetic
essences which cause them to differ physically, cognitively, or behaviorally. Apparently, no …

In the aftermath of every major breakthrough or revolution in the natural sciences, each
newly adopted theory evolves into four narrative forms. First, there is the canonical form of …