Excluded from humanity: The dehumanizing effects of social ostracism

By Brock Bastian, Nick Haslam. 2010

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Cyber-dehumanization: Violent video game play diminishes our humanity (2012, methodology): “Participants then rated themselves on 8-items adapted from Bastian and Haslam (2010) assessing the attribution of Human Nature (4items; e.”
Restricting the Use of Solitary Confinement (2018, background): “…have documented the ways in which social exclusion is not only “painful in itself,” but also “undermines people’s sense of belonging, control, self-esteem, and meaningfulness, reduces pro-social behavior, and impairs self-regulation” (Bastian & Haslam 2010, p. 107; internal references omitted).”
Supervisor ostracism and defensive silence: a differential needs approach (2018, background): “Supervisor ostracism also makes employees feel socially invisible, non-existent and less human (Bastian & Haslam, 2010).”
Dehumanization and infrahumanization. (2014, background): “…Jackson & Gaertner 2010), and ethnic groups (e.g., “Native Americans were basically wild creatures before the arrival of the White men”; Castano & Giner-Sorolla 2006) and perceptions of being dehumanized (e.g., “I felt like I was mechanical and cold, like a robot”; Bastian & Haslam 2010).”
Experiencing Dehumanization: Cognitive and Emotional Effects of Everyday Dehumanization (2011, background): “The one exception is the work of Bastian and Haslam (2010), who demonstrated that people view themselves as less human when they have been socially excluded.”
The unique effects of blatant dehumanization on attitudes and behavior towards Muslim refugees during the European ‘refugee crisis’ across four countries (2018, background): “Another blatant dehumanization measure based on attributions of overt animalistic traits (see Bastian & Haslam, 2010; Kteily et al., 2015) was included in the survey; results using this measure are reported in supplementary analyses.”
Social connection enables dehumanization (2012, background): “…of social exclusion and rejection have varied effects on dehumanization, in some cases increasing dehumanization of both oneself and the perpetrator of exclusion out of frustration and spite (Bastian & Haslam, 2010) and in other cases increasing humanization of nonhumans (Epley et al., 2008).”
Empathy: a motivated account. (2014, background): “Perceptions that an outgroup is threatening (Maoz & McCauley, 2008; Viki, Osgood, & Phillips, 2013) or that a target does not like an observer (Bastian & Haslam, 2010), as well as reminders of ingroup violence toward an outgroup (Castano & Giner-Sorolla, 2006; Čehajić, Brown, & González, 2009;…”
Perceived organizational support and employees’ well-being: the mediating role of organizational dehumanization (2017, background): “For instance, Christoff (2014), based on Bastian and Haslam’s (2011), work stated that “when people are mechanistically dehumanized by being treated as objects, as means to an end, or as lacking the capacity for feeling, they tend to enter into ‘cognitive deconstructive’ states that are characterize”