Subhuman, inhuman, and superhuman: Contrasting humans with nonhumans in three cultures

By Nick Haslam, Yoshihisa Kashima, S. Loughnan, Junqi Shi, Caterina Suitner. 2008

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Dehumanization and infrahumanization. (2014, background): “The two contrasts, closely aligned with the dimensions of Gray et al.’s (2007) mind perception framework, invoke qualitatively different metaphors and attributes, which have been shown to be independent in studies of lay understandings of the respective entities (Haslam et al. 2008).”
Parasocial interactions with real and virtual influencers: The role of perceived similarity and human-likeness (2022, background): “…feats accomplished by contemporary AI—entities such as robots or digitally created agents are still perceived to be inferior to real people (e.g. Broadbent et al., 2013; Haslam et al., 2008), both in terms of agency (i.e. the ability to think and plan) and experience (i.e. the ability to feel).”
Seeing brands as humans: Development and validation of a brand anthropomorphism scale (2020, background): “Perceiving non-human agents in human-like terms is considered to be a universal phenomenon (Epley et al., 2007; Guthrie, 1993; Haslam et al., 2008) implying that the meaning of brand anthropomorphism should be similar across cultures.”
A Superhumanization Bias in Whites’ Perceptions of Blacks (2015, background): “This aspect of the present research is striking because, a priori, superhumanization seems like a phenomenon reserved for admired and/or well-liked targets (Demoulin et al., 2008; Haslam et al., 2008; Viki & Calitri, 2008).”
Understanding the Relationship between Attribute-Based and Metaphor-Based Dehumanization (2009, background): “People possess lay theories about the psychological characteristics of robots (Haslam et al., 2008), specifi cally that they are cold, unfeeling, and infl exible.”
Attributing and denying humanness to others (2008, background): “In the second study (Haslam, Kashima, Loughnan, Shi, & Suitner, 2008), participants in Australia, China, and Italy rated humans in comparison with three different nonhumans (animals, robots, supernatural beings) on a comprehensive set of 37 mental state terms (D’Andrade, 1987) (i.e., ‘‘rate the exte”
Eco-Guilt Motivates Eco-Friendly Behavior (2012, unknown): “Research on dehumanization shows that failure to attribute human characteristics to targets such as robots, pets, or other humans changes the way we perceive and behave toward those targets (Haslam et al., 2008).”
WHEN WE NEED A HUMAN: MOTIVATIONAL DETERMINANTS OF ANTHROPOMORPHISM (2008, background): “Finally, understanding anthropomorphism should provide precious insight into the inverse process of dehumanization, whereby people fail to attribute humanlike characteristics to other humans and think of them as nonhuman agents (see Boccato, Capozza, Falvo, & Durante, 2008, this issue and Haslam, K”