Not all ballots should be considered equal: How education-based dehumanization undermines the democratic social contract

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2023-11-16 DOI:10.1111/bjso.12697

Mario Sainz, Alexandra Vázquez

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Less educated people are viewed negatively and their opinions are belittled in our society. Besides, along with other groups, they are underrepresented in the political arena which questions the legitimacy of democratic systems. Despite the existence of education-based devaluation, research on how people dehumanize individuals and groups with lesser education and minimize their democratic rights is scarce. In this project, we provide correlational evidence that less (vs. highly) educated individuals and groups are dehumanized (Study 1a, N = 304) and their democratic rights (voting, running for office) are questioned (Study 1b, N = 504). Furthermore, we identified that dehumanization tendencies of the less (vs. highly) educated targets predict support for denying them voting rights or the capability to run for public candidacies (Study 2, N = 447). Finally, an experimental study confirmed that the target's educational background influences attributions of humanity, which in turn seem to affect the denial of democratic rights to the target (Study 3, N = 470). These findings suggest that education-based dehumanization might undermine the inalienable democratic rights of lesser educated individuals and groups thus endangering the foundations of democratic systems.

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并非所有选票都应被视为平等:基于教育的非人性化如何破坏民主社会契约。

在我们的社会中，受教育程度较低的人被视为负面的，他们的观点被贬低。此外，与其他群体一样，他们在政治舞台上的代表人数不足，这对民主制度的合法性提出了质疑。尽管存在以教育为基础的贬值，但人们如何将受教育程度较低的个人和群体非人化，并将其民主权利最小化的研究却很少。在这个项目中，我们提供了相关证据，证明受教育程度较低(与受教育程度较高)的个人和群体被非人化(研究1a, N = 304)，他们的民主权利(投票、竞选)受到质疑(研究1b, N = 504)。此外，我们发现受教育程度较低(相对于受教育程度较高)的目标的非人性化倾向预示着人们会支持剥夺他们的投票权或竞选公共候选人的能力(研究2,N = 447)。最后，一项实验研究证实，目标的教育背景会影响人性的归因，而人性的归因似乎又会影响目标对民主权利的否认(研究3,N = 470)。这些调查结果表明，以教育为基础的非人性化可能会破坏受教育程度较低的个人和群体不可剥夺的民主权利，从而危及民主制度的基础。

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British Journal of Social Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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期刊介绍： The British Journal of Social Psychology publishes work from scholars based in all parts of the world, and manuscripts that present data on a wide range of populations inside and outside the UK. It publishes original papers in all areas of social psychology including: • social cognition • attitudes • group processes • social influence • intergroup relations • self and identity • nonverbal communication • social psychological aspects of personality, affect and emotion • language and discourse Submissions addressing these topics from a variety of approaches and methods, both quantitative and qualitative are welcomed. We publish papers of the following kinds: • empirical papers that address theoretical issues; • theoretical papers, including analyses of existing social psychological theories and presentations of theoretical innovations, extensions, or integrations; • review papers that provide an evaluation of work within a given area of social psychology and that present proposals for further research in that area; • methodological papers concerning issues that are particularly relevant to a wide range of social psychologists; • an invited agenda article as the first article in the first part of every volume. The editorial team aims to handle papers as efficiently as possible. In 2016, papers were triaged within less than a week, and the average turnaround time from receipt of the manuscript to first decision sent back to the authors was 47 days.

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