Disgust facilitates outgroup dehumanization
Disgust facilitates outgroup dehumanization
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DOI：
10.1177/1368430212471738
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发表时间：
2013-11-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Trapnell, Paul D.
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作者：
Buckels, Erin E.;Trapnell, Paul D.
外群体非人化的数字集中在历史上的群体间暴力，但鲜为人知的是，促进他人的非人化的看法的因素。借鉴研究强调厌恶相关的社会分类和厌恶敏感性对外群非人性化的重要性，作者假设厌恶的感觉因果地促进非人性化的社会认知。为了验证这一假设，参与者（N = 94）被随机分配接受厌恶，悲伤或中性情绪的诱导。然后，我们评估了动物和一个任意的外群体之间的内隐关联，该外群体是用最小群体程序创建的。结果表明，尽管所有参与者都表现出非人性化的偏见，但厌恶的参与者表现出外群体与动物（以及内群体与人类）之间最强烈的联系。悲伤组和中立组的参与者没有差异。因此，厌恶似乎具有独特的能力，可以促进外群体成员的社会认知去人性化。
Outgroup dehumanization figures centrally in historical intergroup violence, yet little is known about the factors that promote dehumanized perceptions of others. Drawing on research highlighting the importance of disgust-relevant social categorizations and disgust sensitivity to outgroup dehumanization, the authors hypothesized that feelings of disgust causally facilitate dehumanized social cognition. To test this hypothesis, participants (N = 94) were randomly assigned to receive inductions of disgusted, sad, or neutral emotions. We then assessed their implicit associations between animals and an arbitrary outgroup created with a minimal-groups procedure. Results showed that although all participants demonstrated dehumanizing biases, disgusted participants showed the strongest associations between the outgroup and animals (and the ingroup with humanity). Participants in the sad and neutral groups did not differ. Disgust thus appears to have the unique capacity to foster the social-cognitive dehumanization of outgroup members.