返回
Reducing Explicit Blatant Dehumanization by Correcting Exaggerated Meta-Perceptions
DOI:10.1177/19485506221099146.png)
摘要
En 中文
If explicitly, blatantly dehumanizing a group of people-overtly characterizing them as less than human-facilitates harming them, then reversing this process is paramount. Addressing dehumanization among American political partisans appears especially crucial, given that it has been linked to their anti-democratic hostility. Perhaps because of its overt nature, partisans recognize-and greatly exaggerate-the extent to which out-partisans explicitly, blatantly dehumanize them. Past research has found that when people perceive they are dehumanized by an outgroup (i.e., meta-dehumanization), they respond with reciprocal dehumanization. Therefore, we reasoned that partisans' dehumanization could be reduced by correcting their exaggerated meta-dehumanization. Indeed, across three preregistered studies (N = 4,154), an intervention correcting American partisans' exaggerated meta-dehumanization reduced their own dehumanization of out-partisans. This decreased dehumanization persisted at a 1-week follow-up and predicted downstream reductions in partisans' anti-democratic hostility, suggesting that correcting exaggerated meta-dehumanization can durably mitigate the dark specter of dehumanization.
Keyword:
dehumanization
political polarization
meta-perceptions
social distance
affective polarization
期刊
IF:
3.3
论文数:
1.7K
被引数:
7.3K
机构
引用论文
Single-Paper Meta-Analysis: Benefits for Study Summary, Theory Testing, and Replicability单篇论文荟萃分析: 研究总结、理论测试和可复制性的好处
Hiding in plain sight: Dehumanization as a foundation of white racial prejudice
SOCIOLOGY COMPASS
IF2.1
The effects of normal aging on multiple aspects of financial decision-making正常老龄化对财务决策多个方面的影响
PLOS ONE
IF0

