Effects of Morality and Emotion Perceptions on Tendency to Infrahumanize

Infrahumanization involves denying outgroups feel the same emotions as ingroups. Moral identity and emotion perceptions on infrahumanization from torture was examined. Only morality and emotions-as-weakness were associated with torture perceptions for both primary and secondary emotions. Morality by Perpetrator was also marginally significant, but only for primary emotions.