Objectification and (De)Humanization [electronic resource] : 60th Nebraska Symposium on Motivation /
Nebraska Symposium on Motivation(60th :2012 :Lincoln, Nebraska)
Gervais, Sarah J.editor.
Objectification and (De)humanization brings together a wealth of scholarship from across psychology and the social sciences to illuminate how we understand "human-ness" and to focus on the many ways that those human qualities are minimized--and frequently denied--in others.                                                                                                  “They're all alike. I have no use for them. They're not like us-- they're barely human.”   These statements are easily recognized as different degrees of stereotyping, bigotry, and discrimination. But psychologically speaking, these inaccurate perceptions of people show other, deeper, forces at work: objectification, the reduction of people to specific parts or functions, and dehumanization, the treating of humans as animals or inanimate objects.   This forward-looking Volume in the Nebraska Symposium on Motivation offers research on dehumanization and objectification as experienced by both the targets and the initiators of these processes for clear insights into their effects on individual mental health and societal well-being. The theories in this book carry wider implications for action, from addressing various forms of pathology to advancing social justice. Included in the coverage:   Moving towards a unified theory of objectification and dehumanization. A terror management perspective on the objectification of women. Pity, disgust, other? Varieties of dehumanization. Self-objectification as justification of unjust systems. Treating pets as people/treating people as animals. Considering a pan-theoretical approach to objectification and dehumanization. Objectification and (De)humanization is a groundbreaking reference for social psychologists, cognitive psychologists, clinical psychologists, and experimental psychologists as well as  researchers in gender studies, anthropologists, and sociologists. Its depth of analysis is a testament to our continued recognition of our shared humanity.
Preface; Contents; Contributors; Toward a Unified Theory of Objectification and Dehumanization; Abstract; Classic Perspectives; Objectification; Sexual Objectification; Self-Objectification; Dehumanization; Infra-Humanization; Humanness; Relations Between Objectification and Dehumanization; Current Perspectives; A Unified Conceptualization of Objectification and Dehumanization; Objectification, Person Perception, and the Global Versus Local Processing Model; Local Attention and Recognition of Women's Bodies; Local Objectified Categorization; Local Impression Formation and Subsequent Behaviors
Critical Next Steps for ResearchOverview of Invited Perspectives; Humanness; Mixed Model of Stereotype Content; Terror Management; System Justification; Anthropomorphism; A Pantheoretical Framework; Concluding Thoughts; References; The Psychology of Humanness; Abstract; Humanness; Two Senses of Humanness; Relation to Other Dimensions; A Model of Dehumanization; Varieties of Humanness Denial; Human Uniqueness; Stereotypes; Animal Metaphors; Human Nature; Stereotypes; Self-Humanizing; Social Exclusion; Human Nature and the Mitigation of Flaws; Perceptions of Animals; Objectification
Objectification and DehumanizationObjectification and Mind; Objectification and Moral Concern; Conclusions; References; Varieties of (De) Humanization: Divided by Competition and Status; Abstract; Warmth and Competence in the Stereotype Content Model; Evidence for the SCM; Generality of the SCM; Varieties of Dehumanization in Mind, Brain, and Behavior; The Trolley Study: Valuing People's Lives by Their Status; Dehumanizing the Homeless: Disgust toward the Lowest of the Low; Resenting Investment Bankers: Schadenfreude Toward Envied Outgroups
Pitying the Weak: Prescriptions for the Warm but IncompetentAble-bodied People's Prescriptions for People with Disabilities; Younger People's Prescriptions for Older People; Stereotypic Men's Prescriptions for Stereotypic Women; Interim Summary; Individuating the Ingroup; What is Humanization? Beyond Not-Categorizing; Who Humanizes (Individuates)?; Why Bother?; How Do People Humanize?; When Do People Humanize?; Why Worry about Humanization?; Finale; References; Immortal Objects: The Objectification of Women as Terror Management; Abstract; Objectification: Something, Not Someone
Feminists and Philosophical Considerations of ObjectificationObjectification Theory in Psychology: Self-Objectification; New Approach in Psychology: Objectification of Others; State of the Object: Inconsistencies, Uncertainties, and Questions of Interest; Objectification and Dehumanization; Objectification and Its Operationalization; Objectification and Gender; Objectification and Its Scope; A Functional Understanding of Objectification (Terror Management); A Terror Management Explanation; The Next Step; Conclusion; References
On Objects and Actions: Situating Self-Objectification in a System Justification Context
Includes index.
Objectification and (De)humanization brings together a wealth of scholarship from across psychology and the social sciences to illuminate how we understand "human-ness" and to focus on the many ways that those human qualities are minimized--and frequently denied--in others.                                                                                                  “They're all alike. I have no use for them. They're not like us-- they're barely human.”   These statements are easily recognized as different degrees of stereotyping, bigotry, and discrimination. But psychologically speaking, these inaccurate perceptions of people show other, deeper, forces at work: objectification, the reduction of people to specific parts or functions, and dehumanization, the treating of humans as animals or inanimate objects.   This forward-looking Volume in the Nebraska Symposium on Motivation offers research on dehumanization and objectification as experienced by both the targets and the initiators of these processes for clear insights into their effects on individual mental health and societal well-being. The theories in this book carry wider implications for action, from addressing various forms of pathology to advancing social justice. Included in the coverage:   Moving towards a unified theory of objectification and dehumanization. A terror management perspective on the objectification of women. Pity, disgust, other? Varieties of dehumanization. Self-objectification as justification of unjust systems. Treating pets as people/treating people as animals. Considering a pan-theoretical approach to objectification and dehumanization. Objectification and (De)humanization is a groundbreaking reference for social psychologists, cognitive psychologists, clinical psychologists, and experimental psychologists as well as  researchers in gender studies, anthropologists, and sociologists. Its depth of analysis is a testament to our continued recognition of our shared humanity.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Cognitive psychology.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Cognitive Psychology.
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