The ability to predict both homicidal and nonmurderous violent behavior would theoretically be helpful in some types of crime. 1 Considerable efforts have been made in this direction. Statistical studies, although they are not helpful in individual prediction, show that violent behavior is more likely to occur in the mentally ill who have been chronic patients in psychiatric hospitals than in t...

Treating a human mind like a machine is an essential component of dehumanization, whereas attributing a humanlike mind to a machine is an essential component of anthropomorphism. Here we tested how a cue closely connected to a person's actual mental experience-a humanlike voice-affects the likelihood of mistaking a person for a machine, or a machine for a person. We predicted that paralinguisti...

This article investigates two registers of dehumanization in the Brereton Report. It begins with Afghan civilians that is reflected Report, which alleges SOTG personnel adopted a liberal interpretation rules engagement to justify using lethal force against civilians. Drawing on work Judith Butler and Sara Ahmed, we draw attention gendered racialized assumptions constituted people as potential t...

The present study tested the proposition that disengagement of moral self-sanctions enables prison personnel to carry out the death penalty. Three subgroups of personnel in penitentiaries located in three Southern states were assessed in terms of eight mechanisms of moral disengagement. The personnel included the execution teams that carry out the executions; the support teams that provide sola...

People are motivated to maintain social connection with others, and those who lack social connection with other humans may try to compensate by creating a sense of human connection with nonhuman agents. This may occur in at least two ways-by anthropomorphizing nonhuman agents such as nonhuman animals and gadgets to make them appear more humanlike and by increasing belief in commonly anthropomor...