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Cognitive psychology

an intuitive tendency to explain observed patterns by the inherent features of the things involved, proposed as a precursor of psychological essentialism.

In cognitive psychology, inherence heuristic refers to an intuitive tendency to explain observed patterns by the inherent features of the things involved, proposed as a precursor of psychological essentialism. This meaning comes from Cimpian (2014) in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.[1]

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Cimpian, A., & Salomon, E. (2014). The inherence heuristic: An intuitive means of making sense of the world, and a potential precursor to psychological essentialism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(5), 461-480. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x13002197

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