Dehumanization involves seeing others as less than human, enabling harmful behaviors like discrimination and violence. This psychological process often uses language and stereotypes to justify ...

We human beings have a remarkable ability to dehumanize one another: to conceive of others as subhuman creatures, and to treat them accordingly. I argue in my book Less Than Human: Why We Demean, ...

During the past week, the news has brought us difficult images and sounds: Migrant and refugee children huddled in steel cages. Children and parents wailing as they are torn apart by American agents.

New research co-led by Liu-Qin Yang, a professor of psychology at Portland State University (PSU), suggests that the true damage of a toxic boss goes far deeper than a bad mood — it fundamentally ...

Some of human history's greatest atrocities—genocide, slavery, ethnic cleanings—are rooted in our ability to dehumanize people from other social, political, or cultural groups. Whereas prior research ...

Psychologists propose a novel framework to systematically explain schadenfreude, a common, yet poorly understood, emotion. Schadenfreude, the sense of pleasure people derive from the misfortune of ...

New research co-led by Liu-Qin Yang, a professor of psychology at Portland State University (PSU), suggests that the true damage of a toxic boss goes far deeper than a bad mood—it fundamentally alters ...

Citations: Kteily, Nour, Emile Bruneau. 2017. Backlash: The Politics and Real-World Consequences of Minority Group Dehumanization. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. (1)87-104.

Dehumanization refers to the attribution of sub-human qualities to individuals or groups, stripping them of the moral and social standing afforded to fellow humans. Within social psychology, ...

During the past week, the news has brought us difficult images and sounds: Migrant and refugee children huddled in steel cages. Children and parents wailing as they are torn apart by American agents.

It has long been thought that when people characterized others as less-than-human, it was an expression of extreme dislike. New research shows that in fact judgements about dislike and dehumanization ...