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The Uniquely Powerful Impact of Explicit, Blatant Dehumanization on Support for Intergroup Violence

2024-09-26

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<p>To effectively address intergroup violence, we must accurately diagnose the psychological motives driving it. Dehumanization—the explicit and blatant denial of an outgroup's humanity— is widely considered one such driver, informing both scholarly theory and social policy on intergroup violence. Nonetheless, dehumanization is often intertwined with intense negative affect, raising concerns that dehumanization’s...

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Literature Corpus work: 9e2910a6-9e7a-5b6b-8f89-eed2576ac71a
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/weh7k

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