Dehumanization is reached through several approaches, including the attribute-based model of mind perception and the metaphor-based model of dehumanization. We performed two studies to find different (de)humanized images for three targets: Professional people, Evil people, and Lowest of the low. In Study 1, we examined dimensions of mind, expecting the last two categories to be dehumanized through denial of agency (Lowest of the low) or experience (Evil people), compared with humanized targets (Professional people). Study 2 aimed to distinguish these targets using metaphors. We predicted that Evil and Lowest of the low targets would suffer mechanistic and animalistic dehumanization, respectively; our predictions were confirmed, but the metaphor-based model nuanced these results: animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization were shown as overlapping rather than independent. Evil persons were perceived as "killing machines" and "predators." Finally, Lowest of the low were not animalized but considered human beings. We discuss possible interpretations.
Tradicionalmente se ha conceptualizado el sexismo como una hostilidad genérica hacia las mujeres. Sin embargo, éste puede manifestarse conjuntamente con actitudes benevolentes y con el reconocimiento de características "positivas" del estereotipo femenino. La respuesta a esta contradicción está en la naturaleza de estas características: no se puede infrahumanizar a las mujeres negándoles la capacidad de experimentar sentimientos, pero sí se las puede infravalorar atribuyéndoles sentimientos o características "devaluadas". El sexismo se caracteriza también por la falta de homogeneidad en la percepción del grupo "mujeres". Podemos hablar de subtipos específicos: tradicional (ama de casa), independiente (profesional) y sexy. Con el fin de analizar las diferencias existentes en la atribución de características a estos tres modelos de mujer, así como las diferencias en la valoración de las mismas, se elaboró un cuestionario con tres versiones. Los participantes (hombres y mujeres) debían calificar el tipo de mujer correspondiente en un listado de 24 rasgos asociados a tres dimensiones: competenciasociabilidad, sentimiento-emoción, natural-cultural. Los resultados indican que el tipo de rasgos asignados, así como la valoración de los mismos, varía en función del tipo de mujer y del sexo del participante.
This article describes the results of a parenting program “Apoyo Personal y Familiar,” (APF; Personal and Family Support program) targeted at parents of families at high psychosocial risk. APF aims at preventing unnecessary placement of children from vulnerable families into foster-care by increasing parental competence in order to improve their autonomous functioning. The program is implemented through group meetings in community centers. The method involves exposing the parents to parental views and practices in specific child-rearing episodes and encouraging them to reflect on their own views and the consequences on child development. In the Intervention group 144 mothers completed the pretest and posttest measures and 155 mothers were in a waiting-list comparison group. Self-report measures on parental implicit theories, child-rearing practices, and personal agency were used to perform the evaluation. Group discourse and the monitor's behavior observed during the sessions were used as predictors of the program's efficacy. Compared to control mothers, program mothers endorsed less simple views on child development, reported positive changes in their child-rearing practices, and had more confidence in their personal resources and a more accurate view of their parental role. Group effect sizes on the outcome measures were predicted by the type of group discourse and the type of group management observed during the sessions. The use of a perspectivist discourse was positive for promoting complex ideas and actions, whereas a self-centered discourse was positive for improving personal agency and for reporting less use of permissive practices. The role of the monitor was particularly relevant for reinforcing the mothers' sense of confidence in their own resources and for facilitating changes in child-rearing tactics.
La evaluación situacional de los conflictos: Construcción y análisis del cuestionario de estrategias y metas de resolución de conflictos escolares [Situational assessment of conflicts: Devising and analyzing the questionnaire of strategies and goals for school conflicts resolution].
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