“…Thus, endorsing genetic explanations for mental illnesses yields decidedly mixed effects for how people view those with psychopathologies (Kvaale et al, 2013;Lebowitz & Ahn, 2014;Phelan et al, 2002). Although psychopathology is the most prominent topic in which perceptions of undesirable health-related symptoms as an outcome of biological/genetic explanations have been studied, similar essentialist tensions have been found in research on prenatal genetic testing (e.g., Blumberg, 1994;Kelly, 2009), smoking (e.g., Dar-Nimrod, Zuckerman, & Duberstein, 2014;Tercyak, Peshkin, Wine, & Walker, 2006), alcoholism (Dar-Nimrod, Zuckerman, & Duberstein, 2013), memory loss (Lineweaver, Bondi, Galasko, & Salmon, 2014), and overeating (Monterosso et al, 2005).…”