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T1 How human are you? The humanness scale
T2 ¿Cuán humano eres tú? La escala de humanidad
A1 Morera Bello, María Dolores
A1 Delgado Rodríguez, Naira
A1 Quiles del Castillo, María Nieves
A1 Martínez, Rocío
A1 Hess, Stephany
K1 Humanness scale
K1 Prejudice
K1 Subtle and blatant dehumanization
AB The main goal of this research was to develop a new measure focused on a set of propositional beliefs linked to what people consider humanness to be, to evaluate global and overt expressions of dehumanization. Study 1 (N = 277) was aimed to build a scale that included 13 items (α = .94) and explore its dimensionality (EFA). Study 2 (N = 296) was aimed to confirm its unidimensional structure and to analyse the relationship between the humanness scale (HS) and relevant variables as an affective thermometer, a subtle and blatant prejudice scale and a perceived social status scale. Study 3 (N = 290) contrasted the HS with other measures of dehumanization on the prediction of social distance. Results showed that the ingroup was perceived as being the most human group, while the other groups were distributed across the humanness dimension. Moreover, HS scores were significantly but moderately related to the other measures and the best predictor of social distance. This research provides a new and easy way of measuring dehumanization in everyday social perception.
SN 0213-4748
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/35238
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/35238
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 20-may-2024