Social connection enables dehumanization

By Adam Waytz, Nicholas Epley. 2012

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Who Sees Human? (2010, background): “Those who are socially connected are less likely than those who are lonely to anthropomorphize nonhuman agents (Epley et al., 2008), and those who are socially connected also appear more likely to dehumanize other humans (Waytz & Epley, 2009).”
A Mind like Mine: The Exceptionally Ordinary Underpinnings of Anthropomorphism (2018, background): “In another experiment by my colleagues and me (Waytz et al. 2014), we encouraged participants to anthropomorphize a simulated autonomous vehicle by giving it a name (Iris), a human voice, a gender (female), and spoken content implying the ability to sense its surroundings and plan for the future.”
A motivational hierarchy within: primacy of the individual self, relational self, or collective self? (2012, background): “The possibility of relational-self primacy similarly entails a dubious side as exemplified by research indicating that interpersonal connection promotes dehumanization and harsh treatment of socially distant others (Waytz & Epley, 2012).”
Group membership alters the threshold for mind perception: The role of social identity, collective identification, and intergroup threat (2014, background): “…beings (Epley, Akalis, Waytz, & Cacioppo, 2008; Epley, Waytz, Akalis, & Cacioppo, 2008), while those who feel socially connected are more likely to attribute fewer mental capacities, e.g. the ability to engage in thought or experience pain, to socially distant others (Waytz & Epley, 2012).”
Empathy: a motivated account. (2014, background): “By contrast, satiating social need—for instance, by asking people to think about their close ties to friends and family— increases subsequent dehumanization of outgroup targets (Waytz & Epley, 2012).”
The Cycle of Violence: Understanding Individual Participation in Collective Violence (2015, background): “Violent groups are particularly well-positioned to promote dehumanization of others because social connection enables dehumanization (Waytz and Epley, 2012).”
Products as Pals: Engaging with Anthropomorphic Products Mitigates the Effects of Social Exclusion (2017, unknown): “…recent research demonstrating that greater social connectedness can lead to the unintentional, negative consequence of dehumanizing other people (Waytz and Epley 2012), by showing that less social connectedness (i.e., social exclusion) can potentially have negative consequences on interpersonal…”
The effect of social exclusion on consumer preference for anthropomorphized brands (2017, background): “The current research builds on Epley et al. (2007)’s manipulating anthropomorphism and leading participants by design to either a brand or not.”