Crowds’ malice behind the screen: The normative influences of online dehumanization on discrimination against foreigners

IF 2.3 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations Pub Date : 2022-10-21 DOI:10.1177/13684302221127228

Gewei Chen, Jianning Dang

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Abstract

With the ubiquitous presence of the Internet, comments that dehumanize foreigners are frequently found on social networking platforms. These comments may function as dehumanizing norms and facilitate discrimination against foreigners in the offline world. In the current research, three studies were conducted to explore this possibility. Study 1 was a correlational study that revealed a positive association between dehumanizing norms and discrimination against foreigners. Studies 2 and 3 manipulated dehumanizing norms and found that these norms promoted discrimination against foreigners via increased prejudice toward them. Study 3 further measured perceived online anonymity and revealed that decreasing perceived online anonymity buffered the destructive influences of dehumanizing norms. In conclusion, to our knowledge, the current research represents the first attempt to empirically explore the normative influences of dehumanization on discrimination against foreigners and provides practical implications for comment management on the Internet.

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屏幕背后的人群恶意:网络非人性化对歧视外国人的规范影响

随着互联网的无处不在，社交网络平台上经常出现贬低外国人的评论。这些评论可能会成为非人性化的规范，并助长对线下世界外国人的歧视。在目前的研究中，我们进行了三项研究来探讨这种可能性。研究1是一项相关研究，揭示了非人性化规范与对外国人的歧视之间的正相关关系。研究2和研究3操纵了非人性化规范，发现这些规范通过增加对外国人的偏见来促进对外国人的歧视。研究3进一步测量了感知网络匿名性，发现感知网络匿名性的降低缓冲了非人性化规范的破坏性影响。综上所述，据我们所知，本研究首次尝试实证探讨非人化对外国人歧视的规范性影响，并为互联网评论管理提供了实践意义。

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Group Processes & Intergroup Relations PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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8.50

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期刊介绍： Group Processes & Intergroup Relations is a scientific social psychology journal dedicated to research on social psychological processes within and between groups. It provides a forum for and is aimed at researchers and students in social psychology and related disciples (e.g., organizational and management sciences, political science, sociology, language and communication, cross cultural psychology, international relations) that have a scientific interest in the social psychology of human groups. The journal has an extensive editorial team that includes many if not most of the leading scholars in social psychology of group processes and intergroup relations from around the world.