L'estudi de la deshumanització i la infrahumanització en psicologia

  1. Rodríguez Pérez, Armando
  2. Betancor Rodríguez, Verónica
  3. Delgado Rodríguez, Naira
Revista:
Anuari de psicologia de la Societat Valenciana de Psicologia

ISSN: 1135-1268

Año de publicación: 2010

Volumen: 13

Número: 1-2

Páginas: 171-187

Tipo: Artículo

Otras publicaciones en: Anuari de psicologia de la Societat Valenciana de Psicologia

Resumen

The psychosocial study on antisocial behavior and cruelty of the human beings recognizes the dehumanizing representation of the other one. The present study focuses on the empirical advances about infra-humanization research as a differential attribution of secondary emotions to the ingroup and to the outgroup. Because secondary emotions (e.g. love, hope, contempt, resentment) are considered uniquely human emotions, people not only attribute more secondary emotions to their ingroup than to outgroups, but are reluctant to associate these emotions with outgroups. In this article, we first describe briefly the different perspectives used to study the dehumanization. Then we report the main conclusions derived from the empirical research on the infrahumanization and why the infra-humanization occurs for high and low status groups, even in the absence of conflict between groups. Finally, the differences are commented between dehumanization and infra-humanization, and some proposals are done for future developments.

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