Humanness and Dehumanization

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Dehumanization is an old phenomenon, but the identification of new, modern and subtle forms of "everyday" dehumanization (infrahumanization) since 2000 has led to a resurgence of interest and research on this topic. This work has also revived interest in more basic questions about beliefs about the "essence" of humanity and what it means to be human, as our understanding of humanness influences how we dehumanize others. This volume has three main themes: (a) What it means to be human (e.g. dimensionality of humanness beliefs ...