He just signed a new ban on issuing visa to travelers from six Muslim-majority countries. If Trump can stoke perceptions of threat, he can stoke dehumanization. After the attack, blatant dehumanization of Muslims jumped up significantly. Support for seeking vengeance and conducting drone strikes in Muslim countries grew too. We as a planet need to wipe them off this world. Every one of them. Inside us all is the same mental machinery that fueled the atrocities of the past century.
Part of the reason some Americans dehumanize Muslims is because they think Muslims dehumanize us. But this assumption is wrong. In the book she wrote with John L. Esposito, Who Speaks For Islam? What a billion Muslims really think , Mogahed lay out data from 50, interviews from Muslims around the world.
And she finds that the Muslim world does hold a lot of admiration for American values. But they actually love and admire our freedom.
This intervention is also remarkably simple. In many ways, they admire it. It also helps to get white Americans to think through their hypocrisy. Overall, the experts I spoke to all said that the No. And we have so few opportunities to do the hard work of breaking through those first impressions and getting to know the human soul inside. Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all.
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By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. The dark psychology of dehumanization, explained. Share this story Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter Share All sharing options Share All sharing options for: The dark psychology of dehumanization, explained. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. A recent experiment took a group of 5-year-olds and showed them a series of pictures of faces.
The pictures were of humans, humans digitally manipulated to look like plasticky dolls, or somewhere in between. When the kids were told they were looking at people from a foreign land, the number of images they considered to be human decreased. Study participants have the choice to rate each group as a perfect on the survey. Muslim men pray at a prayer and demonstration at JFK Airport to protest President Donald Trump's executive order banning immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries on February 3, , in New York City.
Kteily and co-authors conducted two separate trials two months before the bombings, and two separate trials six months after hence the repetition. While effects varied in strength, a consistent pattern emerged across all eight of the studies, the authors wrote. Their findings also stand in contrast to past research suggesting that self-dehumanization resulting from socially ostracizing others may be predictive of compensatory moral behavior. One explanation for this difference, the authors offered, is that while succumbing to the temptation to lie or cheat for money represents a self-regulation failure in the moral domain, there may be no comparable temptation to ostracize others.
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