Elaborating humanness: a direct comparison between mindful and mindless entities

ElsevierVolume 49, February 2023, 101235Current Opinion in Behavioral SciencesAuthor links open overlay panelHighlights•

Dehumanization is described as the fading of the human–object divide.

A new paradigm to measure dehumanization processes more directly is proposed.

Directly comparing mindful and mindless entities.

Broadens our understanding of the underlying processes of dehumanization.

Links dehumanization with face and person perception processes.

Dehumanization is a well-known phenomenon in which people are perceived and elaborated as less than fully human. At the same time, it has widely been demonstrated how human beings are elaborated through different cognitive and neural processes compared with objects. Integrating both types of literatures, the current article proposes to study dehumanization as a fading of the human–object divide. Specifically, we introduce an innovative paradigm in which mindful human stimuli and perceptually similar mindless nonhuman entities are compared, demonstrating how these stimuli are elaborated more similarly when dehumanization can be expected. This approach opens up promising avenues to further our understanding of the underlying processes of dehumanization showing what really happens when humans are perceived as object-like.

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