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Priming Effects of Violence on Infrahumanization

Naira Delgado

University of Laguna, Tenerife, ndelgado{at}ull.es

Armando Rodríguez-Pérez

University of Laguna, Tenerife

Jeroen Vaes

University of Padova

Jacques-Philippe Leyens

Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

Verónica Betancor

University of Laguna, Tenerife

Two experiments examine whether exposure to generic violence can display infrahumanization towards out-groups. In Study 1, participants had to solve a lexical decision task after viewing animal or human violent scenes. In Study 2, participants were exposed to either human violent or human suffering pictures before doing a lexical decision task. In both studies, the infrahumanization bias appeared after viewing the human violent pictures but not in the other experimental conditions. These two experiments support the idea of contextual dependency of infrahumanization, and suggest that violence can prime an infrahuman perception of the out-group. Theoretical implications for infrahumanization and potential underlying mechanisms are discussed.

Key Words: contextual cues • infrahumanization • priming effects • secondary emotions • violence

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Vol. 12, No. 6, 699-714 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1368430209344607
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