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Essentially Subhuman: Psychological Essentialism Facilitates Dehumanization

2021-04-26

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<p>Dehumanization has played a prominent role in myriad human atrocities, which inspired us to investigate its social-cognitive basis. Since dehumanization consists of perceiving another to lack a defining human essence, scholars have suggested that this process may be grounded in psychological essentialism, the belief that members of a group all share an underlying essence. Indeed, essentialism predicted American...

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Literature Corpus work: f27f13b0-6cb3-52f6-879e-bf845374175d
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/k735d

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