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      Animals and androids: implicit associations between social categories and nonhumans.

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      Psychological science

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          Abstract

          People commonly ascribe lesser humanness to others than to themselves. Two senses of humanness appear to be involved: attributes that are unique to humans and those that constitute essential "human nature." Denying uniquely human and human-nature attributes to other people may implicitly liken them to animals and automata, respectively. In the present study, the go/no-go association task was used to assess implicit associations among social categories exemplifying the two senses of humanness, traits representing these senses, and the two types of nonhumans. Congruent associations (among artists, human-nature traits, and animals; among businesspeople, uniquely human traits, and automata) were consistently stronger than incongruent associations. Explicit ratings supported these differential associations. Social perception may involve two subtle ways of dehumanizing others.

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          Journal
          Psychol Sci
          Psychological science
          0956-7976
          0956-7976
          Feb 2007
          : 18
          : 2
          Affiliations
          [1 ] University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
          Article
          PSCI1858
          10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01858.x
          17425529
          f4869039-f68b-4b49-821e-452be752cf7a
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