Reducing Explicit Blatant Dehumanization By Correcting Exaggerated Meta-Perceptions

American political partisans tend to think out-partisans dehumanize them far more than is actually the case (i.e., they have exaggerated meta-dehumanization), which inspires reciprocal dehumanization and anti-democratic hostility. Therefore, we developed an intervention to correct partisans’ exaggerated meta-dehumanization, which durably reduced their own dehumanization of, and anti-democratic hostility toward, out-partisans.