humanization: Infrahumanization of outgroups
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Infrahumanization of outgroups
Description
Particpants were read a news item about either Hurricane Katrina (New Orleans, USA) or or the 2010 Pakistan flooding. The control group got no further information. The rest of the participants were given further information. Those who read about Katrina were told about how Pakistan sent aid in either a low or high amount. Those who read about the 2010 Pakistan flooding were told about how the US sent aid in either a low or a high amount. Participants were asked how strongly they believed Pakistanis would have felt both secondary and primary emotions following the disaster.
Usage
humanization
Format
A tibble with 321 observations of 7 variables with attributes from SAS.
- age
Age in years of participant.
- gender
Factor with three levels; Female, Male and Other.
- group
Factor with 6 levels; Katrina control/low/high and Pakistan control/low/high
- pak_sec
Mean of response to 7 secondary emotional questions about Pakistanis. Secondary emotions are grief, sorrow, mourning, anguish, guilt, remorse and resentment.
- pak_prim
Mean of response to 7 primary emotional questions about Pakistanis. Primary emotions are confusion, pain, distress, fear, panic, anger, and rage.
- us_sec
Unsure of the meaning of this variable.
- us_prim
Unsure of the meaning of this variable.
Details
From the authors: "Dehumanization and infrahumanization involve decreasing the humanity attributed to others. Despite the existence of a large body of work on these topics, little is known about how to increase outgroup humanization. Across two experiments, we examined the effects of intergroup and intragroup helping on dehumanization and infrahumanization."
Source
Davies T, Yogeeswaran K, Verkuyten M, Loughnan S (2018) From humanitarian aid to humanization: When outgroup, but not ingroup, helping increases humanization. PLoS ONE 13(11): e0207343
Davies, Thomas J. “Humanitarian Helping.” OSF, 25 Oct. 2018. Web.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207343
