ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
A Novel Affective Approach to Reduce the Dehumanization Bias.
- Tiarah Engels
University of Amsterdam - Bertjan Doosje
University of Amsterdam - David Amodio
New York University - Disa Sauter
University of Amsterdam
Abstract
Dehumanization – a social bias of perceiving others as less than human – is widespread with disastrous impacts on human welfare. Existing effortful cognitive strategies to reduce dehumanization had limited success. We present empirical support for our novel affective approach to reducing dehumanization via the emotion elevation.
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