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This event is part of the School of Education's Bristol Conversations in Education research seminar series. These seminars are free and open to the public.

Hosted by the Centre for Psychological Approaches for Studying Education (PASE)

Speaker: Dr Harriet Over, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), University of York

Discrimination is a pressing social problem. Psychological research can only help ameliorate discrimination if it accurately characterises the mechanisms underlying our social biases. Prominent psychological theories suggest that outgroups are often subtly dehumanised by being denied uniquely human qualities and emotions. I will present a series of theoretical and empirical challenges to these claims. I will describe experimental data suggesting that, although out-group members may be denied some uniquely human qualities and emotions, they are attributed others. These results suggest that leading theories of dehumanisation may not accurately capture how human psychology contributes to discrimination.

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