In many conflicts, dehumanization plays a major role. What is dehumanization? It includes killing and violence against the Other. It includes slavery of the Other. It includes discrimination and ...

Our brains are built to think about other minds. So why do whole groups of people slip out of view? The answer says more ...

Throughout history, autocratic regimes, especially authoritarian or populist ones on the far left and the far right, have demonized what they have determined to represent their nations’ “internal ...

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) has recently come under fire. One of the main criticisms has been that the IAT for race does not seem to correlate with discriminatory behavior. This criticism ...

Dehumanization refers to the attribution of sub-human qualities to individuals or groups, stripping them of the moral and social standing afforded to fellow humans. Within social psychology, ...

Erika Kirk is still reeling from Druski’s viral parody video about white conservative women, believed by many to reference ...

For the past 11 weeks, we Palestinians have seen enough tragedies to fill several lifetimes. The Palestinian coders and techies I worked with built bridges to Silicon Valley. Amid Israel’s bombing, ...

Healthcare’s first responders are often hailed as “heroes.” This classification could be contributing to higher burnout rates, according to a recent study. The research, published in the Journal of ...

New research co-led by Liu-Qin Yang, a professor of psychology at Portland State University (PSU), suggests that the true damage of a toxic boss goes far deeper than a bad mood — it fundamentally ...

Why do we make others feel less than? Dehumanization happens when people see others as "less than" or not human. Language and labels can make a group seem less human than another group. Moral ...