Prati, Francesca and Crisp, Richard J. and Meleady, Rose and Rubini, Monica (2016) 'Humanizing outgroups through multiple categorization : the roles of individuation and threat.', Personality and social psychology bulletin., 42 (4). pp. 526-539.
Abstract
In three studies, we examined the impact of multiple categorization on intergroup dehumanization. Study 1 showed that perceiving members of a rival university along multiple versus simple categorical dimensions enhanced the tendency to attribute human traits to this group. Study 2 showed that multiple versus simple categorization of immigrants increased the attribution of uniquely human emotions to them. This effect was explained by the sequential mediation of increased individuation of the outgroup and reduced outgroup threat. Study 3 replicated this sequential mediation model and introduced a novel way of measuring humanization in which participants generated attributes corresponding to the outgroup in a free response format. Participants generated more uniquely human traits in the multiple versus simple categorization conditions. We discuss the theoretical implications of these findings and consider their role in informing and improving efforts to ameliorate contemporary forms of intergroup discrimination.
Item Type: | Article |
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Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial. Download PDF (538Kb) |
Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167216636624 |
Publisher statement: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Date accepted: | 07 February 2016 |
Date deposited: | 05 September 2017 |
Date of first online publication: | 16 March 2016 |
Date first made open access: | 05 September 2017 |
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