Dehumanization and infrahumanization

N Haslam, S Loughnan - Annual review of psychology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
We review early and recent psychological theories of dehumanization and survey the
burgeoning empirical literature, focusing on six fundamental questions. First, we examine …

Dehumanization and the lack of social connection

N Haslam - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Dehumanization is traditionally considered in the context of intergroup conflict. An emerging
body of research examines how it also occurs in interpersonal relationships and is …

Human‐itarian aid? Two forms of dehumanization and willingness to help after natural disasters

L Andrighetto, C Baldissarri, S Lattanzio… - British journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The present research explores the distinct effects of animalistic and mechanistic
dehumanization on willingness to help natural disaster victims. We examined J apanese …

Cogs in the machine: The prioritization of money and self-dehumanization

RL Ruttan, BJ Lucas - Organizational Behavior and Human Decision …, 2018 - Elsevier
The dehumanization of other people is an unfortunately common occurrence that drives
discrimination and conflict. We examined when and why the self can also be dehumanized …

Thicker-skinned but still human: People may think individuals in poverty are less vulnerable to harm even when ascribing them full humanity

NN Cheek - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2025 - Elsevier
Research has shown that people sometimes display a “thick skin bias” whereby they believe
that individuals in poverty are less harmed by negative events than individuals from higher …

Dissociations between animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization in the context of labor exploitation

ML Stanley, AC Kay - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
Across eight studies (and two additional supplemental studies), we investigate possible
bidirectional causal links between dehumanization and exploitation (total N= 5923) …

Unethical prosocial behaviour and self‐dehumanization: The roles of social connectedness and perceived morality

J Wang, H Zhang - British Journal of Social Psychology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Unethical prosocial behaviour (UPB) refers to acts where people violate widely held moral
rules to benefit others. In light of previous research on the association between immoral …

Empathy, culture and self‐humanising: Empathising reduces the attribution of greater humanness to the self more in Japan than Australia

J Park, N Haslam, Y Kashima… - International journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
People tend to ascribe greater humanness to themselves than to others. Previous research
has indicated that this “self‐humanising” bias is independent of self‐enhancement and …

Collectivism and the development of indigenous psychology in South Korea

J Park, G Han - Asia-Pacific perspectives on intercultural …, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Collectivism, a main theme in cross-cultural psychology, has been a broad umbrella-term
characterising East Asian psychology for decades. However, its characteristics are not …

Reconsidering research on self-humanizing: The importance of mean comparative judgments

M Cypryańska, JB Nezlek, A Jaskółowska… - The Journal of social …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Self-humanization is defined as the tendency to view oneself as more essentially human
than others. Researchers have claimed that people attribute human nature traits more …