Dehumanization increases instrumental violence, but not moral violence

Across five experiments, we show that dehumanization—the act of perceiving victims as not completely human—increases instrumental, but not moral, violence. In attitude surveys, ascribing reduced capacities for cognitive, experiential, and emotional states to victims predicted support for practices w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Valdesolo, Piercarlo, Graham, Jesse, Rai, Tage Shakti
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115137
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6085-6519