Challenging the dehumanisation hypothesis

School of Education, University of Bristol

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Bristol Conversations in Education

This seminar series showcases world-class, impactful, cross-disciplinary research about education. Aimed at researchers, practitioners and policymakers, it is free to attend but registration is required. All welcome.

This event is part of the School of Education's <a href="http://www.bristol.ac.uk/education/research/bristol-conversations-in-education-research-seminar-series/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Bristol Conversations in Education research seminar series</a>. These seminars are free and open to the public.Hosted by the <a href="https://www.bristol.ac.uk/education/research/centres-networks/centre-for-psychological-approaches-for-studying-education-pase/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Centre for Psychological Approaches for Studying Education (PASE)</a>
Speaker: <a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/psychology/staff/academicstaff/ho543/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr Harriet Over</a>, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), University of York<a href="https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/melanie-ehren" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a>Discrimination is a pressing social problem. Psychological research can only help ameliorate discrimination if it accurately characterises the mechanisms underlying our social biases. Prominent psychological theories suggest that outgroups are often subtly dehumanised by being denied uniquely human qualities and emotions. I will present a series of theoretical and empirical challenges to these claims. I will describe experimental data suggesting that, although out-group members may be denied some uniquely human qualities and emotions, they are attributed others. These results suggest that leading theories of dehumanisation may not accurately capture how human psychology contributes to discrimination.

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