AI Article Synopsis
- The text talks about a theory that says we don't help people from different groups because we think they lack human emotions.
- The researchers did four studies to see if this theory was true and found it wasn't really accurate.
- Instead, they discovered that if we see someone in a positive light, we're more likely to help them, and if we think negatively of them, we're less likely to help, no matter how "human" their emotions are.
Article Abstract
We challenge the explanatory value of one of the most prominent psychological models of dehumanization-infrahumanization theory-which holds that outgroup members are subtly dehumanized by being denied human emotions. Of central importance to this theory is the claim that, to the extent that other people are 'infrahumanized', they are less likely to be helped. We examine this hypothesised relationship across four pre-registered and well powered studies. We do not find that attributing all uniquely human emotions to others is positively associated with helping intentions towards them. Instead, we find that attributing prosocial emotions is positively associated with helping intentions and attributing antisocial emotions is negatively associated with helping intentions, regardless of emotion humanness. In our data, what previously appeared to be an association between subtle dehumanization and reduced helping is better explained by the tendency to avoid helping others when we view them negatively.
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