Seminar · Cognition
Psychological essentialism in working memory research
Satoru Saito · Kyoto University
Wed, Oct 6, 2021 · 01:00 UTC
Psychological essentialism is ubiquitous. It is one of primary bases of thoughts and behaviours throughout our entire lifetime. Human's such characteristics that find an unseen hidden entity behind observable phenomena or exemplars, however, lead us to somehow biased thinking and reasoning even in the realm of science, including psychology. For example, a latent variable extracted from various measurements is just a statistical property calculated in structural equation modeling, therefore, is not necessary to be a fundamental reality. Yet, we occasionally feel that there is the essential natu