New research provides evidence that political partisans in the United States who perceive their group as a primary victim of ...

When the most powerful person in the world uses dehumanizing language, it is never just rhetoric. It is instruction. In late November, Donald Trump ...

In many conflicts, dehumanization plays a major role. What is dehumanization? It includes killing and violence against the Other. It includes slavery of the Other. It includes discrimination and ...

When the most powerful person in the world uses dehumanizing language, it is never just rhetoric. It is instruction.

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. On December 14,1995 leaders from Bosnia and ...

Philosophers believe in the power of thinking—not positive thinking in the Norman Vincent Peale and Joel Osteen sense, but precise thinking. They may place too much hope in the power of conceptual ...

America's founding ideals are being challenged by how we treat each other. Dehumanizing rhetoric leads to discrimination, exclusion, and violence. OneJax promotes building bridges of understanding and ...

When you see the president or other politicians use terms like “animals” or, even worse, “infestation” (a term usually reserved for insects), they are engaging in dehumanization. People use ...

When we represent or think about other groups of people as being less human than ourselves we psychologically dehumanize that group. The most commonly researched variant of dehumanization involves ...