We review early and recent psychological theories of dehumanization and survey the
burgeoning empirical literature, focusing on six fundamental questions. First, we examine …

Nonhuman animals are ubiquitous to human life, and permeate a diversity of social contexts
by providing humans with food and clothing, serving as participants in research, improving …

While leadership scholars increasingly acknowledge the influence of followers in the
leadership process, less attention has been paid to their role in the destructive leadership …

Terror management theory posits that people are motivated to affirm cultural meaning
systems, including political ideologies, to avoid the awareness of mortality. Accordingly …

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

Terrorism and radicalization have a long history, but in recent years their prominence has
been a particularly conspicuous and influential feature of the global political landscape. This …

Many studies demonstrate that mortality salience can increase negativity toward outgroups
but few have examined variables that mitigate this effect. The present research examined …

Building on terror management theory, we hypothesized that viewing destroyed buildings
would increase death thought accessibility and thereby elicit dogmatic belief and hostile …

War means threat to people's lives. Research derived from terror management theory (TMT)
illustrates that the awareness of death leads people to defend cultural ingroups and their …

Terror management theory postulates that mortality salience (MS) increases the motivation
to defend one's cultural worldviews. How that motivation is expressed may depend on the …