心理本质论, 文化本质论, 人格本质论, 文化自信

Essentialism is an important cognitive method for humans to form conceptual categories, and it remains unknown whether it contributes to the formation of cultural confidence. This paper aimed to explore the role of psychological essentialism on the formation of cultural self-confidence through two studies. The first study found that manipulating cultural essentialism can statefully alter an individual's cultural self  confidence, and that cultural self-confidence significantly increased as cultural essentialism increased. The second study revealed that alterations in personality essentialism, which pertains to non-cultural domains, did not influence individuals' cultural self-confidence. These findings imply that essentialism plays a role in the formation of an individual's cultural self-confidence and that its effects are cultural domain specific.