Are certain categories and identities natural and immutable, or are they artificial social conventions? The answer very much ...

Cognitive psychologists have examined an interesting question related to social categories and identities: Under what circumstances do people essentialize a social category? Essentialism is the ...

“To essentialize me is to define who I am by a set of entrenched and unchanging properties, and we all, especially in Western societies, do this to some extent.