Our humanity contains multitudes: Dehumanization is more than overlooking mental capacities

Cyber-dehumanization: Violent video game play diminishes our humanity

Blaming, praising, and protecting our humanity: the implications of everyday dehumanization for judgments of moral status.

Being human implies a particular moral status: having moral value, agency, and responsibility. However, people are not seen as equally human. Across two studies, we examine the consequences that subtle variations in the perceived humanness of actors or groups have for their perceived moral status. Drawing on Haslam's two-dimensional model of humanness and focusing on three ways people may be co...

When One Is More Than Two: Increasing Our Memory

kids.frontiersin.org In our daily lives, we learn new things all the time. Unfortunately, it is usually difficult for us to remember everything that we learn. To increase our ability to remember, either for a few seconds or for many years, we can think in a way that ties together several pieces of information, so that they make fewer pieces of information. There are two ways the brain does this...

Are Crimes against Humanity More Serious than War Crimes?

This paper addresses the question of the relative gravity of crimes against humanity vis-à-vis war crimes. The issue is tackled from a double perspective. First, the categories of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes are compared at the general or legislative level. The analysis is mainly based on international treaties and other instruments that consider these crimes from the viewp...

The Impact of Power on Humanity: Self-Dehumanization in Powerlessness

Power gives people the ability to control themselves and their environment, and this control is considered a fundamental human need. We investigated whether experiencing powerlessness induces the experience of self-dehumanization using three methods: priming, role-playing, and cueing. People in a position of low power viewed themselves (Experiments 1-3) as less human relative to people in a pos...