Cuteness and Disgust: The Humanizing and Dehumanizing Effects of Emotion

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A Framework for the Computational Linguistic Analysis of Dehumanization (2020, background): “Disgust contributes to members of target groups being perceived as less-thanhuman and of negative social value (Sherman and Haidt, 2011).”
Minds without spines: Evolutionarily inclusive animal ethics (2020, background): “Whereas the cuteness response promotes increased social engagement with subjectively cute beings, disgust leads to avoidance and disengagement from disgust-eliciting beings (Sherman & Haidt 2011).”
The Role of Moral Emotions in Military Trauma: Implications for the Study and Treatment of Moral Injury (2014, background): “…unit, othercondemning moral emotions toward the enemy have the potential to engender such dehumanization and thereby increase the likelihood that combatants (or civilians perceived as being associated with enemy combatants) would be the target of abusive violence (e.g., Sherman & Haidt, 2011).”