{"id":9331,"date":"2019-05-22T16:17:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/typological_thinking\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:17:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:17:39","slug":"typological_thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/typological_thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Typological thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having it roots in Plato&#8217;s idealistic philosophy, it is a view that&nbsp;there are a limited number of fixed types in nature and thus that any variation is an illusion. &nbsp;A focus on central tendencies such as means to the neglect of standard deviations represents a modern form of typological thinking, as do racism and sexism. &nbsp;It was Darwin&#8217;s theory of natural selection that replaced typological thinking with population thinking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"ecological_fallacy\">Ecological fallacy<\/a>, <a href=\"eugenics\">Eugenics<\/a>, <a href=\"metonymy\">Metonymy<\/a>, <a href=\"normality\">Normality<\/a>, <a href=\"population_thinking\">Population thinking<\/a>, <a href=\"race-ethnicity\">Race-ethnicity<\/a>, <a href=\"theory_of_natural_selection\">Theory of natural selection<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having it roots in Plato&#8217;s idealistic philosophy, it is a view that&nbsp;there are a limited number of fixed types in nature and thus that any variation is an illusion. &nbsp;A focus on central tendencies such as means to the neglect of standard deviations represents a modern form of typological thinking, as do racism and sexism. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/typological_thinking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Typological thinking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}