A developmental psychologist who investigated how children reason about nonobvious properties of living things. Experiments on internal properties and category membership tested whether expectations follow surface appearance or deeper assumptions about what an organism is. This work informs psychological essentialism without treating children’s beliefs as biological facts.[ref]
Insides and essences: early understandings of the non-obvious by Susan A. Gelman and others. 1991, internal-properties and category-membership experiments
Portrait of Susan A. Gelman
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