Journal article
More human than you: Attributing humanness to self and others.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol.89(6), pp.937-950
2005
Abstract
People typically evaluate their in-groups more favorably than out-groups and themselves more favorably than others. Research on infrahumanization also suggests a preferential attribution of the "human essence" to in-groups, independent of in-group favoritism. The authors propose a corresponding phenomenon in interpersonal comparisons: People attribute greater humanness to themselves than to others, independent of self-enhancement. Study 1 and a pilot study demonstrated 2 distinct understandings of humanness - traits representing human nature and those that are uniquely human - and showed that only the former traits are understood as inhering essences. In Study 2, participants rated themselves higher than their peers on human nature traits but not on uniquely human traits, independent of self-enhancement. Study 3 replicated this "self-humanization" effect and indicated that it is partially mediated by attribution of greater depth to self versus others. Study 4 replicated the effect experimentally. Thus, people perceive themselves to be more essentially human than others.
Details
- Title
- More human than you: Attributing humanness to self and others.
- Authors/Creators
- N. Haslam (Author/Creator) - The University of MelbourneP. Bain (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityL. Douge (Author/Creator) - The University of MelbourneM. Lee (Author/Creator) - The University of MelbourneB. Bastian (Author/Creator) - The University of Melbourne
- Publication Details
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol.89(6), pp.937-950
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Identifiers
- 991005539977407891
- Copyright
- © 2005 by the American Psychological Association.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Psychology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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