Outlier Evidence of Mutually Positive Intergroup Perceptions During Asymmetric Conflict

You are not like the rest of them: disrupting meta-perceptions dilutes dehumanization

“…This can be in terms of how one imagines the opposing political party feels toward your party on feeling thermometers or on how much humanity the other group would attribute to one's own party (Vorauer et al, 1998;Moore-Berg et al, 2020;Landry et al, 2021). This is in contrast to other work that operationalizes meta-perceptions as the difference between how much one believes their in-group values something compared to how much they perceive the out-group values that same characteristic (Pasek et al, 2022) or estimating how another group may act in a given situation (Shackleford et al, 2024). Others use meta-perceptions as in-group social norm perceptions, such as asking certain group members (international students, individuals with mental health problems, and Muslims) to what extent they think that members of their group would want to do certain actions, such as the desire for contact with other groups (Stathi et al, 2020) or rating of outgroup actions (Lees and Cikara, 2020).…”