The Early Expression of Blatant Dehumanization in Children and Its Association with Outgroup Negativity.
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2022-06-06
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Dehumanization is observed in adults across cultures and is thought to motivate human violence. The age of its first expression remains largely untested. This research demonstrates that diverse representations of humanness, including a novel one, readily elicit blatant dehumanization in adults (N = 482) and children (aged 5-12; N = 150). Dehumanizing responses in both age groups are associated with support for outgroup inferiority. Similar to the link previously observed in adults, dehumanization by children is associated with a willingness to punish outgroup transgressors. These findings suggest that exposure to cultural norms throughout adolescence and adulthood are not required for the development of outgroup dehumanization.
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Zhou, Wen, and Brian Hare (2022). The Early Expression of Blatant Dehumanization in Children and Its Association with Outgroup Negativity. Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.), 33(2). pp. 196–214. 10.1007/s12110-022-09427-x Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/25514.
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Wen Zhou
Her research focuses on the intersection among intergroup relations, social cognition, and human-animal relations. She is especially interested in how social and developmental processes shape our perceptions of humanity and hierarchy. Her teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include evolutionary anthropology, social and developmental psychology, and moral decision making.
She has had papers published in leading academic journals including Developmental Science, Behavioral & Brain Sciences, Conservation Biology, Human Nature, and Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. She is a member of the editorial board of Psychology of the Human-Animal Intergroup Relations.
Zhou obtained her Ph.D. degree in evolutionary anthropology from Duke University and a Bachelor degree in psychology at Beijing Normal University. She also holds secondary appointments with Duke University and Wuhan University.
Brian Hare
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