Aversion to organs donated by suicide victims: The role of psychological essentialism

Overview of attention for article published in Cognition, August 2019

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[Dumbasses think they'll "catch" mental health...

User drunky_crowette, in the morbidquestions subreddit, 29 Sep 2026

[Dumbasses think they'll "catch" mental health issues](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010027719302100)

Please read [Aversion to organs donated by suicide...

User aljoriz, in the Cebu subreddit, 23 Oct 2025

Please read this. [Aversion to organs donated by suicide victims: The role of psychological essentialism - ScienceDirect](https…

By the time the police investigation closes, the organs...

User jadegoddess, in the UnethicalLifeProTips subreddit, 29 Apr 2023

By the time the police investigation closes, the organs won't be viable to be donated anyway. They have 12 hours or less…

Study finds that people tend to prefer organs donated by suicide victims least because of implicit belief that the recipient will inherit negative or neutral traits of the donor, but none of their positive ones.

User Science_Podcast, in the Reddit Science subreddit, 16 Aug 2019

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