Chang-Jiang Liu

Rule Violations with Severe Consequences Increase Dehumanization and Demonization: Examining Perceived Dominance as a Mediator and Social Status as a Moderator

This research investigated how the severity of a violation’s consequences shapes observers’ dehumanization and demonization of violators and examined perceived dominance of the violator as a psychological mechanism underlying this process. Across three experiments (N = 785), rule...