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Essentialist thinking about depression: evidence for polarized beliefs
1School of Behavioural Science, Department of Psychology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. .
Psychological Reports
|February 15, 2003
Abstract:
Mixture modeling of 309 undergraduates' beliefs about the nature of depression yielded two polarized latent classes--those who held essentialist beliefs and those who did not--consistent with the view that essentialist thinking is a distinct cognitive mode.