Biological essentialism correlates with (but doesn't cause?) intergroup bias

AH Bailey, J Knobe - Personality and Social Psychology …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
People with biological essentialist beliefs about social groups also tend to endorse biased
beliefs about individuals in those groups, including intensified emphasis on the group …

Children's essentialist beliefs about weight

R Peretz-Lange, K Carvalho… - Journal of Cognition and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Striking weight biases emerge early in development, yet cognitive-developmental research
has largely ignored weight as a social characteristic of interest. How do children conceive of …