In many conflicts, dehumanization plays a major role. What is dehumanization? It includes killing and violence against the Other. It includes slavery of the Other. It includes discrimination and ...

Dehumanization involves seeing others as less than human, enabling harmful behaviors like discrimination and violence. This psychological process often uses language and stereotypes to justify ...

During the past week, the news has brought us difficult images and sounds: Migrant and refugee children huddled in steel cages. Children and parents wailing as they are torn apart by American agents.

Throughout history, autocratic regimes, especially authoritarian or populist ones on the far left and the far right, have demonized what they have determined to represent their nations’ “internal ...

When you see the president or other politicians use terms like “animals” or, even worse, “infestation” (a term usually reserved for insects), they are engaging in dehumanization. People use ...

We don’t have to accept psychic numbing or endless violence as the only possible responses to our broken world. Relatives of the victims of the atomic bomb offer flowers at Hiroshima Memorial Cenotaph ...

America's founding ideals are being challenged by how we treat each other. Dehumanizing rhetoric leads to discrimination, exclusion, and violence. OneJax promotes building bridges of understanding and ...

Antisemitism supplies the content that fills the resulting vacancy: a centuries-deep schema of Jewish subhumanity that stands ready, in Western cultural memory, the moment a mind reaches for something ...

People talk to their plants, pray to humanlike gods, name their cars, and even dress their pets up in clothing. We have a strong tendency to give nonhuman entities human characteristics (known as ...

For the past 11 weeks, we Palestinians have seen enough tragedies to fill several lifetimes. The Palestinian coders and techies I worked with built bridges to Silicon Valley. Amid Israel’s bombing, ...