Introduction to the Special Issue of <i>Group Processes &amp; Intergroup Relations</i> Less than Human: What People who are Dehumanized Think, Feel, and Do

Baldissarri, Cristina; Demoulin, Stéphanie; Kteily, Nour

doi:10.1177/13684302221139414

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“…A third important strength is that our research participates to the current research efforts that aim at increasing our understanding of dehumanization victims (Stinglhamber & Demoulin, 2023). Indeed, while dehumanization research is now well developed on the side of perpetrators, victim perspectives are still scarce (Baldissarri et al., 2022; Demoulin, Maurage, & Stinglhamber, 2021; Moradi, 2013). Focusing on metadehumanization in our three samples, we have added to the scientific literature that has examined the important role of metadehumanization as an explanatory mechanism in the relationship between important social, organizational, and cultural variables and their consequences.…”

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Backfire effects of performance quantification on stress and disidentification: The role of metadehumanization in organizations, sport, and social networks

Demoulin,

Stinglhamber

2024

British J Social Psychol

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Quantification, that is, the shaping of human environments in numerical terms, is so widespread in contemporary societies that it has contaminated almost all spheres of human life. We explore the links between performance quantification and individuals' feelings of being treated in a dehumanized way, that is, metadehumanization. We present an integrative research that assessed the relationships between performance quantification, metadehumanization, and on two of metadehumanization's consequences, that is, stress and disidentification, in three contexts, that is, organizations, sport, and social networks. In addition, we test the moderating roles of two individual variables, that is, competitiveness and tender‐mindedness, in this model. In three samples (Ns = 204, 300, 297, for Samples A, B, and C, respectively), we show a mediation effect of metadehumanization on the links between performance quantification and stress and disidentification that holds despite of contextual variations. Unexpectedly, our two moderated mediation hypotheses did not hold or showed inconsistent effects across samples.

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Backfire effects of performance quantification on stress and disidentification: The role of metadehumanization in organizations, sport, and social networks

Demoulin,

Stinglhamber

2024

British J Social Psychol

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COVID-19 restrictions and sense of humanness: the role of human needs threat / Las restricciones por la COVID-19 y el sentido de humanidad: el papel de la amenaza a las necesidades humanas

Baldissarri,

Raguso,

Valtorta

et al. 2024

International Journal of Social Psychology: Revista de Psicolog

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The present study analyses the effects of COVID-19 restrictions on self-perception of humanness through the increased sense of threat to fundamental human needs. Furthermore, in an explorative way, we analysed the possible impact of this pattern on the identification with all humanity, in terms of bond with humanity and concern for all humanity. Through a preregistered experimental study ( N = 278), we showed that participants who were asked to recall COVID-19-related restrictions reported a greater sense of human needs threat and, in turn, higher levels of self-dehumanization. In addition, we found that remembering restrictions, compared to the control group, led to lower concern for humanity and indirectly affected it via increased threat of human needs and self-dehumanization.

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“That's Just, Par for the Course”: Social Class, Objectification, and Body Image among White Working-Class Women in the United Kingdom

Chan,

Hurst,

Easterbrook

et al. 2024

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Working-class women are disadvantaged by unequal classed and gendered power dynamics, which shape their experiences of objectification and affect their relationship with their bodies. However, existing objectification and body image literature has scarcely examined working-class women's experiences. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis, the current research contributes to the literature by examining White working-class women's objectification and appearance-related experiences and sensemaking in the UK. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 10 White heterosexual cisgender working-class women (aged between 21 and 35 years) living in England. We found that working-class women understood their positions within society as one where they are inevitably subjected to objectification, harassment, and violence (Superordinate Theme 1). Their experiences of being stigmatized also led to feelings of internalized shame (Superordinate Theme 2), which engendered a need for self-protection. As such, working-class women were constantly vigilant over the way they appeared to others (Superordinate Theme 3) to avoid “sticking out” (i.e., being singled out), where becoming “unnoticeable” (Superordinate Theme 4) was a strategy to (visually) fit in. Our findings shed light on White working-class women's objectification experiences that are underrepresented in existing research. These findings suggest that differential power and control, as reflected by social class, facilitates different constructions of meanings within objectification experiences, which shape women's body and appearance.

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Introduction to the Special Issue of Group Processes & Intergroup Relations Less than Human: What People who are Dehumanized Think, Feel, and Do

Cited by 3 publications

References 79 publications

Backfire effects of performance quantification on stress and disidentification: The role of metadehumanization in organizations, sport, and social networks

Backfire effects of performance quantification on stress and disidentification: The role of metadehumanization in organizations, sport, and social networks

COVID-19 restrictions and sense of humanness: the role of human needs threat / Las restricciones por la COVID-19 y el sentido de humanidad: el papel de la amenaza a las necesidades humanas

“That's Just, Par for the Course”: Social Class, Objectification, and Body Image among White Working-Class Women in the United Kingdom

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