2024
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1352991
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Nonhuman treatment reduces helping others: self-dehumanization as a mechanism

Zaixuan Zhang,
Zhansheng Chen

Abstract: Objectification is a daily experience with various negative consequences. In four studies (N = 877), we tested whether and how objectification experience contributes to decreased prosociality. Using correlational designs (Studies 1 and 2), we found that participants’ objectification experience negatively predicted their prosocial intention and that self-dehumanization could account for the negative association between objectification and prosocial intention. Next, by manipulating participants’ objectification … Show more

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