Title :

Implicit associations of teleology and essentialism concepts with genetics concepts among secondary school students

Author(s) :

Stern, Florian [Auteur]

Delaval, Marine [Auteur]
Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Émotions, Cognition (PSITEC) - ULR 4072
Kampourakis, Kostas [Auteur]
Université de Genève = University of Geneva [UNIGE]
Müller, Andreas [Auteur]
Université de Genève = University of Geneva [UNIGE]

Journal title :

PLoS ONE

Abbreviated title :

PLoS ONE

Volume number :

15

Pages :

e0242189

Publisher :

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Publication date :

2020-11-20

ISSN :

1932-6203

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences cognitives

English abstract : [en]

In this article, we present the development and validation of an implicit association test for measuring secondary school students’ associations between genetics concepts and teleology concepts on the one hand, and between ...
Show more >In this article, we present the development and validation of an implicit association test for measuring secondary school students’ associations between genetics concepts and teleology concepts on the one hand, and between genetics concepts and essentialism concepts on the other hand. In total, 169 students from 16 school classes took part in the study, from January 2018 to May 2018. We investigated the strength of the aforementioned associations and the influence of various covariates such as gender, age, school class, or previous learning of biology on the association of teleology or essentialism concepts with genetics concepts through an analysis of covariance and a multi-level analysis. We found moderate associations between genetics and teleology concepts, as well as between genetics and essentialism concepts. These results might reflect a tendency of students of different ages and with various backgrounds to think about genes in terms of goals (teleology) and stability (essentialism), which should be investigated further in future research.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille

Collections :

• Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Émotions, Cognition (PSITEC) - ULR 4072

Research team(s) :

Education & Société

Submission date :

2022-04-29T15:09:10Z
2022-05-04T07:32:06Z