PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter pdf: Superior Temporal Sulcus, Prefrontal Cortex, Social Neuroscience
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Dehumanized perception: a psychological means to facilitate atrocities, torture, and genocide. Social neuroscience has shown that participants normally activate a social cognition neural network to pictures and thoughts of other people; previous work show that parts of this network fail to engage for traditionally dehumanized targets. Study1: demonstrate participants fail to spontaneously think about the contents of these targets minds when imaging a day in their life. Study 2: dehumanizing perception dimension ratings correlate with activation in brain regions beyond social cognition network disgust, attention, cognitive control. Dehumanized perceptions may be necessary to facilitate extremely inhumane acts like torture against other people, robbing them of their moral protection; tutsi in rwanda (cockroaches) and hitler"s classification of jews as vermin. Social cognition: higher order cognitive process that people spontaneously recruit even to non-human targets temporarily labelled as having internal life. Dehumanized perception perceived on low on both warmth and competence.
