Prati Francesca, Giner-Sorolla Roger
a Department of Psychology , University of Bologna , Bologna , Italy.
b Centre for the Study of Group Processes , University of Kent , Canterbury , UK.
Cogn Emot. 2018 Aug;32(5):1018-1031. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2017.1383885. Epub 2017 Sep 27.
To deny others' humanity is one of the most heinous forms of intergroup prejudice. Given evidence that perceiving various forms of complexity in outgroup members reduces intergroup prejudice, we investigated across three experiments whether the novel dimension of emotional complexity, or outgroup members' joint experience of mixed-valence emotions, would also reduce their dehumanisation. Experiment 1 found that perceiving fictitious aliens' experience of the same primary emotions (e.g. sadness) presented in mixed vs. non-mixed valence pairs led to reduced prejudice via attenuated dehumanisation, i.e. attribution of uniquely human emotions. Experiment 2 confirmed these results, using an unfamiliar real-world group as an outgroup target. Experiment 3 used a familiar outgroup and found generally similar effects, reducing social distance through reduced dehumanisation. These processes suggest that an alternate route to reduced dehumanising of outgroups might involve presenting mixed valence emotions.
否认他人的人性是群体间偏见最恶劣的形式之一。鉴于有证据表明，认识到外群体成员的各种复杂性形式会减少群体间偏见，我们通过三项实验研究了情感复杂性这一新维度，即外群体成员对混合情绪的共同体验，是否也会减少对外群体的非人化。实验1发现，感知虚构外星人在混合与非混合效价对中呈现的相同基本情绪（如悲伤）的体验，会通过减弱非人化（即对独特人类情感的归因）来减少偏见。实验2使用一个不熟悉的现实世界群体作为外群体目标，证实了这些结果。实验3使用一个熟悉的外群体，发现了大致相似的效果，即通过减少非人化来缩短社会距离。这些过程表明，减少对外群体非人化的另一条途径可能涉及呈现混合情绪。
