The challenge of studying human cognitive evolution is identifying unique features of our
intelligence while explaining the processes by which they arose. Comparisons with …

We review emerging research on the psychological and biological factors that underlie
social group formation, cooperation, and conflict in humans. Our aim is to integrate the …

We evaluate the effect of an educational program that aims to build social cohesion in
ethnically mixed schools by developing perspective-taking ability in children. The program is …

A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize othersÑand how and why we do it.
ÒI wouldnÕt have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant whoÕs …

Several aspects of social psychological science shed light on how unexamined racial/ethnic
biases contribute to health care disparities. Biases are complex but systematic, differing by …

Most literally, objectification refers to perceiving a person as an object, and consequently,
less than fully human. Research on perceptions of humanness and the stereotype content …

Agency attribution is a hallmark of mind perception; thus, diminished attributions of agency
may disrupt social–cognition processes typically elicited by human targets. The current …

Dehumanized perception, a failure to spontaneously consider the mind of another person,
may be a psychological mechanism facilitating inhumane acts like torture. Social cognition …

Mostly invigorated by infrahumanisation theory, our knowledge on processes of
dehumanisation in intergroup relations has grown considerably in the last decade. Building …

A person's speech communicates his or her thoughts and feelings. We predicted that
beyond conveying the contents of a person's mind, a person's speech also conveys mental …