Modern food environments are conducive to overeating and weight gain, but not everyone
develops obesity. One reason for this may be that individuals differ in appetitive …

A majority of people the world over eat meat, yet many of these same people experience
discomfort when the meat on their plate is linked to the death of animals. We draw on this …

Many people struggle to control their food intake and bodyweight. This is often interpreted as
evidence that humans are generally predisposed to consume food when it is available …

Millions of people now access personal genetic risk estimates for diseases such as
Alzheimer's, cancer and obesity. While this information can be informative,–, research on …

We propose that people are genetic essentialists—that is, they tend to think of genetic
attributions as being immutable, of a specific etiology, natural, and dividing people into …

Research in genetics and genomics is advancing at a fast pace, and thus kee** up with
the most recent findings and conclusions can be very challenging. At the same time these …

The present study examined essentialist beliefs about sexual orientation and their
implications for sexual identity uncertainty, internalized homonegativity and psychological …

Social essentialism—the belief that individuals contain an underlying essence determined
by the social categories they belong to—has generally been regarded as a harmful cognitive …

Much debate exists surrounding the applicability of genetic information in the courtroom,
making the psychological processes underlying how people consider this information …

Research on children and parents' experiences of ADHD has grown in recent years,
attracting attention to their subjective perception of ADHD as a disorder. Theoretical …