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Social psychology

thinking of genes as fixed, deep causes of a person's nature, which leads to deterministic and fatalistic inferences.

In social psychology, genetic essentialism refers to thinking of genes as fixed, deep causes of a person's nature, which leads to deterministic and fatalistic inferences. This meaning comes from Dar-Nimrod (2011) in Psychological Bulletin.[1]

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Dar-Nimrod, I., & Heine, S. J. (2011). Genetic essentialism: On the deceptive determinism of DNA. Psychological Bulletin, 137(5), 800-818. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021860

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