Identification With All Humanity Scale

McFarland, Sam; Webb, Matthew; Brown, Derek

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“…IWAH usually correlates negatively with the acceptance of social inequalities, prejudice and authoritarianism (McFarland 2011;McFarland and Brown 2008). One would expect academically educated, empathetic IWAH high scorers to have at least a glimmer of understanding about the historical connection between pauperisation and fascism.…”

Section: Discussion Of Exhibition Visitors Surveymentioning

confidence: 96%

“…One would expect academically educated, empathetic IWAH high scorers to have at least a glimmer of understanding about the historical connection between pauperisation and fascism. One would also imagine that they would not want HR to be considered security issues, which would then be delegated to regulative agencies -HEIs known for their (instrumental) inhumanism and often habited by authoritarians who correlate negatively with empathy and HR (Altemeyer 1998;McFarland 2011;McFarland and Brown 2008;Pratto et al 1994).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Ninety per cent had at least a bachelor's degree. The survey on empathy, and indirectly authoritarianism, was inspired by McFarland's (2011) 'Identification With All Humanity' (IWAH) scale (see also McFarland and Brown 2008). Interview questions on ideological attitudes were inspired by Altemeyer's RWA and Sidanius and Pratto's SDO standardised scales.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…McFarland 2011;McFarland and Brown 2008), which often interact in a vicious symbiosis, filtered out in certain socio-cultural milieux. Two influential research concepts, discussed below, are derived, with exceptional empirical consistency, from earlier research on the 'authoritarian personality' (Adorno et al 1950;Fromm 1956).…”

Section: Authoritarianism As a Major Factor In The Negation Of Empathmentioning

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Anthropological Reflections on Lebanese Art: How Empathy, the Human Rights Topos and Ideological Attitudes Interact with Aesthetic Perceptions

P.-Fromm¹,

Mourad²

2013

Anthropology of the Middle East

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This article analyses attitudes of the art public related to subjects of the 2011 art exhibition 'Beirut' , shown at the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna. Some Lebanese artworks, especially those of the (pre-)war generation, were oriented towards utopias of their time and socio-political criticism, and still today revolve around the topoi of human rights. Socio-cultural milieux and institutions seem habited by adherents with congruent values. Art, science and education are thus particularly disputed fields since their common creative quests produce knowledge and, depending on the theme, ideology. We contextualise these topics and highlight a few empirically corroborated explanatory models developed by anthropology in order to elucidate the complex interplay between the individual and society. We appeal to those in academia, education and critical art to play a role in the debate on essential humanistic and ethical principles.

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Section: Discussion Of Exhibition Visitors Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Anthropological Reflections on Lebanese Art: How Empathy, the Human Rights Topos and Ideological Attitudes Interact with Aesthetic Perceptions

P.-Fromm¹,

Mourad²

2013

Anthropology of the Middle East

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“…This quality has been the basis of my own recent work on “identification with all humanity” (McFarland, 2010a, 2010b, in press; McFarland & Brown, 2008). Across the last few years, I have tried to develop and test a measure of “Identification with all Humanity” (IWAH), a scale designed to assess a deep concern and caring for all human beings that transcends one's smaller ingroups, a positive caring for all humans everywhere, a sense that all humanity is one's ingroup.…”

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The Slow Creation of Humanity

McFarland

2010

Political Psychology

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The concept of "humanity"-the belief that "all humanity is one undivided and indivisible family"-has been created slowly in human consciousness since the fifteenth century. Humanity has found increasing expression in international law through the ending of slavery, the creation of "crimes against humanity," and the advancement of human rights. This slow creation of humanity is described by reviewing the vital contributions of Bartolomé de Las Casas, Granville Sharp, Edmund Dene Morel, H. G. Wells, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Still, the creation of humanity is incomplete. The author's research on "identification with all humanity" is summarized. Finally, speculation is offered on the social and psychological foundations of identification with all humanity, on factors that undermine it, and on how it might be enlarged.Political psychology has an historical dimension that we often overlook, and my effort to describe "the slow creation of humanity" will take mainly an historical path. According to Renaissance historian John Headley, humanity began with geography. It was the great geographic discoveries-of America, Africa, Asia, and their inhabitants-that started the creation of humanity.With these discoveries, the dominant response toward the previously unknown peoples was to regard them as brutes, fit only for conquest and enslavement. However, the new awareness of them also created, as Headley (2008) said, "the incipient notion of the human race as a single collectivity" (p. 27). That notion has evolved slowly, and it is still weaker in human affairs than our egocentrism and ethnocentrism, but it is nonetheless much more developed than in the fifteenth century.As with many great developments, there were key inspiring individuals, and I will describe five such persons, what each one did, and why it mattered. I will then

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On attitudes towards humanity and climate change: The effects of humanity esteem and self‐transcendence values on environmental concerns

Cheung

Luke

Maio

2014

Euro J Social Psych

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In climate change communications, do attitudes towards humans influence pro-environmental action? If so, does it depend on endorsement of self-transcendence values? Two experiments examined these questions by assessing the effects of activating positive (vs. negative) humanity esteem on environmental motives, personal moral norms, and behavioural intentions to protect the environment. The experiments tested whether the effects of humanity esteem depend on individuals' self-transcendence values. Results indicated that among people who endorse self-transcendence values less strongly, those in the positive (vs. negative) humanity-esteem condition had lower ecocentrism (Experiment 1) and weaker personal norms, which led to weaker behavioural intentions to protect the environment (Experiment 2). In contrast, across the two humanity-esteem conditions, people who more strongly endorsed selftranscendence values showed stronger ecocentrism, personal moral norms, and behavioural intentions to protect the environment. Thus, for people with weaker self-transcendence values, portrayals of humanity play a role in people's engagement with environmental causes. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Human activities contribute to climate change above and beyond changes that occur through natural processes (IPCC, 2007). In discussions of climate change, this influence of humanity can be presented as an impact that we can overcome through diligence and ingenuity or as an impact that is due to our carelessness and stupidity. Further, humanity can be portrayed as a sociable, intelligent species that helps each other and solves problems collectively or as a self-focused malevolent species that ignores long-term consequences of the destruction of nature. The latter view has resonated in the social media, and there are emerging descriptions of humans as parasites on the earth (e.g. Pindal & Drew, 1966) or cancer on the surface of the earth (e.g. MacDougall, 1997). Similarly, in Age of Stupid, a green documentary released in 2009, film director Franny Armstrong portrayed a disparaging view of humanity and at the same time sought to mobilise civic involvement to combat climate change. Is this an effective approach to engage people in pro-environmental acts? If so, is it compatible with the prevailing social values approach advocated and endorsed by environmentalists and many civil organisations (e.g. Adams & Jeanrenaud, 2008;Kasser, 2009;Leiserowitz & Fernandez, 2008;WWF, 2008)?In two experiments, we tested whether manipulations of attitudes towards humanity lead to changes in motives to protect the environment (Experiment 1), personal moral norms to protect the environment, and intentions to engage in proenvironmental behaviours (Experiment 2). Across the experiments, we also tested if the effects of attitudes towards humanity on environmental motives, personal moral norms, and behavioural intentions depend on the extent to which individuals place importance on self-transcending values. Humanity Esteem and EnvironmentalismResea...

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Identification With All Humanity Scale

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Anthropological Reflections on Lebanese Art: How Empathy, the Human Rights Topos and Ideological Attitudes Interact with Aesthetic Perceptions

Anthropological Reflections on Lebanese Art: How Empathy, the Human Rights Topos and Ideological Attitudes Interact with Aesthetic Perceptions

The Slow Creation of Humanity

On attitudes towards humanity and climate change: The effects of humanity esteem and self‐transcendence values on environmental concerns

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