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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
卷 97, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104224
关键词
Dehumanization; Big Two; Mind perception; Agency; Communality
Ascribing and denying humanity have profound consequences, with communality playing a critical role in the process of humanization. The study found that agency predicts humanization only in specific contexts or for certain targets, with communality taking precedence in most cases.
Ascribing and denying humanity has profound consequences, often leading to devastating outcomes (e.g., violence, genocide). As such, understanding what, exactly, makes someone human becomes imperative. In this paper, we leverage the ubiquitous Big Two dimensions of social perception (agency and communality) to examine the process of humanization. In five studies (N = 1900), we find that the Big Two dimensions-agency (assertiveness, competence) and communality (warmth, kindness)-predict humanization, and critically, we show the primacy of communality in this process. We find that communality takes primacy in humanization when anthropomorphizing, describing an alien species, or ascribing humanness to real-world social targets (Studies 1-3); it is only for contexts where, or targets for whom, agency is particularly relevant that agency predicts humanization (Studies 4-5). We conclude with implications for research on (de)humanization, mind perception, and social-perception.
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