Rationally Speaking #149 - Susan Gelman on "How essentialism shapes our thinking"
Rationally Speaking Podcast - A podcast by New York City Skeptics
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In this episode, psychologist Susan Gelman describes her work on the psychological trait of essentialism: the innate human urge to categorize reality and to assume that those categories reflect meaningful, invisible differences.