Promoting beliefs in the inalienability of human rights by attributing uniquely human emotions through multiple categorization

Abstract

The combination of multiple categorization (i.e., the use of multiple criteria to define others) and human identity-the superordinate group of human beings-has recently been highlighted as a method to reduce implicit (i.e., attribution of secondary emotions) and explicit (i.e., attribution of human rights) dehumanization toward Blacks. In two studies aimed to replicate such evidence the mediating role of secondary emotions in explaining the impact of multiple and human categorization in reducing dehumanization was assessed. The role of implicit cognition, such as attribution of secondary emotions in leading people to attribute human rights to minorities, is discussed.

Does Hub‐and‐Spoke organization of healthcare system promote workers' satisfaction?

“…In order to test whether intragroup interdependence mediates the effects of the type of organizational structure on TMMs among team members and on employees' job satisfaction and work engagement ( hypothesis 5 ) separate bootstrapping simple mediation analyses (5,000 resamples) were carried out. This allowed testing for direct and indirect effects in simple mediation models as prescribed by Preacher and Hayes (; see also Albarello, Crisp, & Rubini, ; Albarello, Foroni, Hewstone, & Rubini, ; Albarello & Rubini, ). The PROCESS 2.15 macro (model 4, which provides κ 2 as an indicator of effects size for mediation models; Preacher & Kelley, ) for SPSS was employed.…”

40 Years of Multiple Social Categorization: A Tool for Social Inclusivity

“…A further study by Albarello, Crisp and Rubini (2018) examined both mediators and moderators of multiple categorization effects on outgroup re-humanization. Priming multiple categorizations of Black people (i.e., "a Black, Christian, male, young, born in Italy from immigrant parents") together with White respondents' super-ordinate identity (by making human identity salient) reduced dehumanization of Black people in general and this, in turn, increased the discrimination (e.g., Hall & Crisp, 2005).…”

Linguistic Discrimination Toward Roma: Can Intergroup Threat Enhance Bias?

“…To test whether implicit linguistic discrimination mediates the effect of threat on affective prejudice toward Roma (Hypothesis 3), bootstrapping mediational analysis (5,000 resamples) was conducted using the methods described by Hayes and Preacher (2014) for mediational models employing multicategorical independent variables (see Albarello & Rubini, 2017; Moscatelli et al, 2014). The PROCESS 2.15 (Model 4) macro for SPSS was employed since it allows entering simultaneously in the regression model the dummy variables expressing the different levels of the independent variable (i.e., D 1 contrasted the no-threat [coded 0] and realistic threat [coded 1] conditions; D 2 compared the no-threat [coded 0] and the symbolic threat [coded 1] conditions).…”

“…The rationale supporting this goal may seem counterintuitive since implicit and explicit measures of prejudice and discrimination are often not correlated (Maass et al, 2000). However, Albarello and Rubini (2017) found evidence of the mediational role of implicit measures of (de) humanization (i.e., attribution of secondary emotions; Leyens et al, 2000) on the explicit measures of attribution of human rights to Blacks. They rooted their assumption on the contribution by Gawronski and Bodenhausen (2006) who distinguished between implicit associative versus explicit propositional processes.…”

“…We also expected higher levels of affective prejudice toward Roma under threat than no-threat condition (Hypothesis 2a) and higher levels of affective prejudice toward Roma in the symbolic than realistic threat condition (Hypothesis 2b). Drawing from Albarello and Rubini's (2017) evidence and Gawronski and Bodenhausen's (2006) contention, we hypothesized that threat's effect on affective prejudice toward Roma would be mediated by implicit linguistic discrimination toward them (Hypothesis 3).…”