Emotional prejudice can lead to infra-humanisation

By S. Demoulin, R. Torres, Armando Rodríguez Pérez, Jeroen Vaes, Maria Paola Paladino, R. Gaunt, Brezo Cortes Pozo, J. Leyens. 2004

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

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From political opponents to enemies? The role of perceived moral distance in the animalistic dehumanization of the political outgroup (2016, result): “Moreover, in line with Demoulin et al. (2009), who showed a positive association between ingroup identification and infrahumanization of the outgroup (but only when membership categories were relevant from the psychological viewpoint), in Study 1, we expected political ingroup identification to…”
What do I Care? Perceived Ingroup Responsibility and Dehumanization as Predictors of Empathy Felt for the Victim Group (2009, methodology): “Attribution of emotions was measured with 16 emotion words which were derived from Demoulin et al. (2004).”
The uniquely human content of stereotypes (2010, background): “One of these broadened conceptions stems from Leyens and colleagues (2000, 2003) and was called the infrahumanization bias (for recent reviews see Demoulin et al., 2004; Leyens, Demoulin, Vaes, Gaunt, & Paladino, 2007).”
Dissociable medial prefrontal contributions to judgments of similar and dissimilar others. (2006, background): “…come from demonstrations that observers assume that outgroup members do not experience the same depth of emotional experience that they do themselves (Demoulin et al., 2004; Vaes et al., 2003) and more readily project their own goals and predilections onto similar targets than dissimilar ones…”
Attributing and denying humanness to others (2008, background): “Taking off from an important and influential line of research on infrahumanisation (Demoulin et al, 2004b ), which defines humanness as that which is unique to our species, we argue that humanness has two distinct senses that are relevant in social perception.”
Lay Theories of Essentialism (2006, background): “Conversely, research on infrahumanization (Demoulin et al., 2005; Leyens et al., 2000) shows that people attribute more uniquely human emotions to their ingroup than to outgroups but do not do so for natural (basic) emotions.”
Social neuroscience evidence for dehumanised perception (2009, background): “This phenomenon demonstrably occurs both explicitly and implicitly (Demoulin et al., 2005), suggesting that emotional infrahumanisation may result from immediate categorisation (Rodriguez-Torres, Leyens, Rodrı́guez Pérez, Betancor Rodriguez, Quiles del Castillo, Demoulin, et al., 2005).”