Beastly: What Makes Animal Metaphors Offensive?

By Nick Haslam, S. Loughnan, Pamela Sun. 2011

94 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/0f2836a2439fd340727ffebc423d393755a0a821

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Nick Haslam
2. S. Loughnan
3. Robbie M. Sutton

In Social Psychology

1. S. Loughnan
2. Nick Haslam
3. Robbie M. Sutton
4. Bettina Spencer
5. Brock Bastian
6. Mina Cikara
7. Adam Waytz
8. Jeroen Vaes

Citations in the corpus

• Dehumanization and social class: Animality in the stereotypes of “white trash,” “chavs,” and “bogans”. (2014, background): “This possibility is consistent with research showing that the perceived offensiveness of animal metaphors is a joint function of the revulsion felt toward the animal and the dehumanizing intention behind the human-animal comparison (Haslam et al., 2011).”