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Spring 2017
A large body of research confirms that self-affirmation reduces defensive reactions to self-threats. Self-affirmation buffers against threats to the self by bolstering perceptions of the self as moral and good, thereby serving to restore global self-integrity. However, recent research shows...
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Fall 2015
Although many researchers have incorporated concepts related to the human essence in their research, there has yet been a measure to quantify the degree to which one believes that there is a human essence. In the current studies, a belief in human essentialism scale (BHES) is developed,...
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Fall 2019
Terror management theory (TMT) posits the human concept is one of value because it helps mitigate existential anxiety by denying our strictly animal, thus mortal, nature. Further, TMT argues one’s culture, a construct tied to humanness, also assists in death and creatureliness denial. Therefore,...
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The Role of Target “Humanness” on Killing: A Study of Moral Disengagement within a Bug-Killing Paradigm
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Dehumanization—the stripping of human qualities from someone—has been theorized to exclude that individual from the bounds of morality, thereby making violent and transgressive behavior perpetrated against that individual acceptable and appropriate. Although past research has indeed found this to...