Implicit Essentialism: Genetic Concepts Are Implicitly Associated with Fate Concepts

Implicit Essentialism: Genetic Concepts Are Implicitly Associated with Fate Concepts

Genetic essentialism is the tendency for people to think in more essentialist ways upon encountering genetic concepts. The current studies assessed whether genetic essentialist biases would also be evident at the automatic level. In two studies, using different versions of the Implicit Association Test, we found that participants were faster to categorize when genes and fate were linked, compar...

Sound iconicity of abstract concepts: Place of articulation is implicitly associated with abstract concepts of size and social dominance

The concept of sound iconicity implies that phonemes are intrinsically associated with non-acoustic phenomena, such as emotional expression, object size or shape, or other perceptual features. In this respect, sound iconicity is related to other forms of cross-modal associations in which stimuli from different sensory modalities are associated with each other due to the implicitly perceived cor...

Are Concepts About Constipation and Dietary Fiber Changing?

Buddhist concepts as implicitly reducing prejudice and increasing prosociality.

Does Buddhism really promote tolerance? Based on cross-cultural and cross-religious evidence, we hypothesized that Buddhist concepts, possibly differing from Christian concepts, activate not only prosociality but also tolerance. Subliminally priming Buddhist concepts, compared with neutral or Christian concepts, decreased explicit prejudice against ethnic, ideological, and moral outgroups among...

Concepts of Genetic Epidemiology

Y.Y. Shugart (ed.), Applied Computational Genomics, Translational Bioinformatics 1, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-5558-1_2, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012 Abstract The major aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of the fi eld of genetic epidemiology and its relevance to the identi fi cation of the causes and risk factors for human diseases. The most important goal of the meth...