PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Health Management System, Experimental Psychology, Human Nature
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Proposes that two distinct types of dehumanization can occur, depending on whether individuals are seen as being without: uniquely human characteristics, human nature characteristics. If people are perceived as lacking what distinguishes humans from animals, they should be seen implicitly or explicitly as animal-like. Proposed links between conceptions of humanness and corresponding forms of dehumanization. When human nature is denied to others, they should be seen a lacking in emotion and warmth and will therefore be perceived as inert and cold. Animalistic dehumanization: the denial of uniquely human attributes (eg. , refinement and moral sensibility) Mechanistic dehumanization: the denial of human nature (e. g. , interpersonal warmth and cognitive openness) lack emotions. Dehumanization through differential attributions of human nature and human. Uniqueness traits (authors: jarret t. crawford, sean a. modri, matt motyl) People more strongly associated human nature traits with liberals than with conservatives, and more strongly associated human uniqueness traits with conservatives than with liberals.
