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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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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...