Humanness Is Not Always Positive: Automatic Associations between Incivilities and Human Symbols
- Betancor, Verónica
- Rodríguez-Pérez, Armando
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Delgado, Naira
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Chen-Xia, Xing Jie
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Rodríguez-Gómez, Laura
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Universidad de La Laguna
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ISSN: 1660-4601
Year of publication: 2021
Volume: 18
Issue: 8
Pages: 4353
Type: Article
More publications in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Abstract
Uncivil behavior involves an attack on social norms related to the protection of public property and respect for community life. However, at the same time, the low-frequency and relatively low-intensity damage caused by most of these behaviors could lead to incivilities being considered a typically human action. The purpose of this set of studies is to examine the automatic associations that people establish between humanness and both civic and uncivil behaviors. Across three studies, uncivil behaviors were more strongly associated with human pictures than animal pictures (study 1) and with human-related words than animal-related words (study 2). We replicated study 2 with uncivil behaviors that do not prime graphically human beings (study 3). Overall, our results showed that uncivil behaviors and civic behaviors were clearly associated with human concepts. Our findings have direct implications for the conceptualization of humanness and its denial.
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