Dehumanizing the Lowest of the Low

By Lasana T. Harris, Susan T. Fiske. Psychology Science, 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Neuroimaging Support for Discrete Neural Correlates of Basic Emotions: A Voxel-based Meta-analysis (2010, neutral): “(2003) fMRI 4m, 3f N/A Viewing bodily expressions V (Bodily Expressions) F Hariri, Mattay, Tessitore, Fera, and Weinberger ( 2003 ) fMRI 5m, 6f 32 Viewing emotional pictures V (Pictures) F Harris and Fiske ( 2007 ) fMRI 10mix N/A Viewing emotional pictures V (Pictures) D H”
The Power of a LabeL: MenTaL ILLness DIagnoses, ascrIbeD huManITy, anD socIaL rejecTIon (2011, background): “The work of Harris and Fiske (2006) suggests that one mechanism underlying responses toward people with mental illnesses may be the degree to which perceivers ascribe them human status.”
Ethically adrift: How others pull our moral compass from true North, and how we can fix it (2013, background): “Recent neurophysiological the homeless or drug addicts, without many of the markers that appear when they look at images of other people (Harris & Fiske, 2006).”
The dynamics of warmth and competence judgments, and their outcomes in organizations (2011, background): “Outgroups eliciting contempt are often dehumanized (Fiske, Harris, & Cuddy, 2004), failing to even activate the area of the brain that recognizes human faces (Harris & Fiske, 2006).”
Dehumanization and infrahumanization. (2014, background): “A small number of neuroimaging studies (Harris & Fiske 2006, 2011) reveal a lack of activation of social cognition networks in the brain when low-low targets are present.”
Building long-term empathy: A large-scale comparison of traditional and virtual reality perspective-taking (2018, methodology): “This measure was chosen to examine whether or not 432 traditional or VR perspective-taking tasks could prevent dehumanization toward the homeless 433 since past research has demonstrated that people are willing to overtly describe outgroup 434 members as less evolved than members of their own group ”
The uniquely human content of stereotypes (2010, methodology): “This finding is in line with those of Harris and Fiske (2006), but extends their results in several ways.”
Social connection enables dehumanization (2012, background): “Yet another research program has operationalized dehumanization as diminished activation in the medial prefrontal cortex (Harris & Fiske, 2006), a brain region distinctively involved in attributing mental states to others (Amodio & Frith, 2006; Mitchell, 2009).”
The neuroscience of social decision-making. (2011, background): “…theory of mind (Gallagher & Frith 2003, Saxe et al. 2004), face processing (Haxby et al. 2002, Todorov et al. 2008), attitudes toward outgroup members (Eberhardt 2005, Harris & Fiske 2006), and the role of the medial prefrontal cortex in social cognition in general (Lieberman 2007, Mitchell 2009).”
Money in the Mental Lives of the Poor (2018, background): “The poor are consistently perceived as being among the least competent groups (Cuddy, Fiske, & Glick, 2007), and people dehumanize the poor and assume they have less mental capacity than those who are well-off (Epley & Waytz, 2010; Harris & Fiske, 2006).”
History of Social Psychology: Insights, Challenges, and Contributions to Theory and Application (2010, background): “Harris and Fiske (2006), for example,”
The Lived Experience of Homeless Youth: A Narrative Approach (2015, background): “Using fMRI technology to study neural activation patterns when viewing images of “extreme out-groups,” Harris and Fiske (2006) demonstrated that homeless individuals were perceived as less than human, eliciting fear and disgust.”
Attributing Human Uniqueness and Human Nature to Cultural Groups: Distinct Forms of Subtle Dehumanization (2009, background): “Other groups may also be denied both HN and HU, such as drug addicts and the homeless, who have been found not to activate areas of the brain associated with social cognition (Harris & Fiske, 2006).”