Not All ‘Intouchables’: Variations in Humanness Perceptions between Physical and Mental Disability
People with disabilities remain discriminated against, especially those living with mental disabilities compared to those living with physical disabilities, which might be rooted in a dehumanization process. Because there is evidence pointing to a tendency to dehumanize people with mental disabiliti...
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| author | Pauline Rasset Benoit Montalan Nicolas Mauny Valerian Boudjemadi Jessica Mange |
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| description | People with disabilities remain discriminated against, especially those living with mental disabilities compared to those living with physical disabilities, which might be rooted in a dehumanization process. Because there is evidence pointing to a tendency to dehumanize people with mental disabilities, the aim of this research ('N' = 559) was to demonstrate the differences in humanness attributions to people with mental and physical disabilities. The results showed that people with mental disabilities are perceived as being less human than people with physical disabilities, whether it be on blatant or subtle measures of dehumanization. More specifically, whereas dehumanization was clearly evidenced for people with mental disabilities, there was no evidence found concerning the dehumanization of people with physical disabilities. The latter were even attributed more humanness-related characteristics than people without physical disabilities. Therefore, contrasted humanness attributions between people labeled as having mental or physical disabilities should be taken into consideration if the image of people with disabilities is to change. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3bd72c9052cf4a05a9b0f222848b34642022-12-22T00:54:25ZengUbiquity PressInternational Review of Social Psychology2397-85702022-07-0135110.5334/irsp.596140Not All ‘Intouchables’: Variations in Humanness Perceptions between Physical and Mental DisabilityPauline Rasset0Benoit Montalan1Nicolas Mauny2Valerian Boudjemadi3Jessica Mange4UnicaenUniversité de Rouen NormandieUnicaenUnistraUnicaenPeople with disabilities remain discriminated against, especially those living with mental disabilities compared to those living with physical disabilities, which might be rooted in a dehumanization process. Because there is evidence pointing to a tendency to dehumanize people with mental disabilities, the aim of this research ('N' = 559) was to demonstrate the differences in humanness attributions to people with mental and physical disabilities. The results showed that people with mental disabilities are perceived as being less human than people with physical disabilities, whether it be on blatant or subtle measures of dehumanization. More specifically, whereas dehumanization was clearly evidenced for people with mental disabilities, there was no evidence found concerning the dehumanization of people with physical disabilities. The latter were even attributed more humanness-related characteristics than people without physical disabilities. Therefore, contrasted humanness attributions between people labeled as having mental or physical disabilities should be taken into consideration if the image of people with disabilities is to change.https://www.rips-irsp.com/articles/596physical disabilitymental disabilitysocial judgmentssubtle dehumanizationblatant dehumanization |
| spellingShingle | Pauline Rasset Benoit Montalan Nicolas Mauny Valerian Boudjemadi Jessica Mange Not All ‘Intouchables’: Variations in Humanness Perceptions between Physical and Mental Disability International Review of Social Psychology physical disability mental disability social judgments subtle dehumanization blatant dehumanization |
| title | Not All ‘Intouchables’: Variations in Humanness Perceptions between Physical and Mental Disability |
| title_full | Not All ‘Intouchables’: Variations in Humanness Perceptions between Physical and Mental Disability |
| title_fullStr | Not All ‘Intouchables’: Variations in Humanness Perceptions between Physical and Mental Disability |
| title_full_unstemmed | Not All ‘Intouchables’: Variations in Humanness Perceptions between Physical and Mental Disability |
| title_short | Not All ‘Intouchables’: Variations in Humanness Perceptions between Physical and Mental Disability |
| title_sort | not all intouchables variations in humanness perceptions between physical and mental disability |
| topic | physical disability mental disability social judgments subtle dehumanization blatant dehumanization |
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