If explicitly, blatantly dehumanizing a group of people—overtly characterizing them as less than human—facilitates harming them, then reversing this process is paramount. Addressing dehumanization among American political partisans appears especially crucial, given that it has been linked to their anti-democratic hostility. Perhaps because its overt nature, recognize—and greatly exaggerate—the ...

Across five experiments, we show that dehumanization-the act of perceiving victims as not completely human-increases instrumental, but not moral, violence. In attitude surveys, ascribing reduced capacities for cognitive, experiential, and emotional states to victims predicted support for practices where victims are harmed to achieve instrumental goals, including sweatshop labor, animal experime...

DEHUMANIZATION AND DEPOLITICIZATION The paper takes up the issue of “depoliticization” through dehumanization. starting point is belief that phenomena “politicization” and “political” are relatively well recognized in scientific literature, however problem depoliticization have not yet been adequately explored. concept refers to conditions, criteria, mechanisms key reducing or depriving a given...

Murrow and Murrow offer a novel account of dehumanization, by synthesizing data which suggest that where subject S has a dehumanized view of group G, S's neural mechanisms of empathy show a dampened response to the suffering of members of G, and S's judgments about the humanity of members of G are largely non-conscious. Here I examine Murrow and Murrow's suggestions about how identity-based hat...

Here, we respond to three peer commentaries on our paper, ‘A hypothetical neurological association between dehumanization and human rights abuses’.1 In that paper, we hypothesized that dehumanizing implicit biases dampen the response of neuralmechanisms of pain empathy to (and thereby reduce empathy for) implicitly subordinated or dehumanized targets, perhaps offering some insight into the asso...

The processes of integration, disintegration and reintegration are central to thinking about politics in processual terms. Among many circumstances determinants, a special place is occupied by issues related the humanization or dehumanization opponents. article deals with relationship between dehumanization-rehumanization disintegration-reintegration context savage wars taking into account thei...