Power increases dehumanization

By J. Lammers, D. Stapel. 2011

164 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d575f06329deefc0171a4755110b081776c989b3

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

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3. S. Loughnan
4. Nicholas Epley
5. Mina Cikara
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In Social Psychology

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2. Adam Waytz
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In Sociology and Political Science

1. S. Loughnan
2. Adam Waytz
3. Nicholas Epley
4. Nick Haslam
5. Jamil Zaki
6. Mina Cikara
7. Brock Bastian
8. Yoshihisa Kashima

Citations in the corpus

• Social connection enables dehumanization (2012, background): “Any factor that creates disconnection from others, such as power (Lammers & Stapel, 2011), socioeconomic status (Piff, Kraus, Côté, Cheng, & Keltner, 2010), or anonymity (Zimbardo, 1969), may therefore enable dehumanization by disengaging people from the minds of others.”
• Dehumanization and infrahumanization. (2014, background): “Lammers & Stapel (2011) found that participants who had a greater personal sense of power tended to ascribe more animalistic traits to a low-status fictitious out-group and that participants induced to feel powerful in a medical decision-making context were more likely to dehumanize a fictitious…”