Origins of the Belief in Good True Selves. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Despite differences in beliefs about the self across cultures and relevant individual differences, recent evidence suggests that people universally believe in a 'true self' that is morally good. We propose that this belief arises from a general tendency: psychological essentialism (PE).

published proceedings

  • Trends Cogn Sci

altmetric score

  • 17.6

author list (cited authors)

  • De Freitas, J., Cikara, M., Grossmann, I., & Schlegel, R.

citation count

  • 53

complete list of authors

  • De Freitas, Julian||Cikara, Mina||Grossmann, Igor||Schlegel, Rebecca

publication date

  • January 2017