The ontologization of Romani: An Italian study on the cross-categorization approach

Berti, Chiara; Pivetti, Monica; Battista, Silvia Di

doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2013.03.002

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“…In Spain, the authors found that Roma people were attributed more natural (or animal-like) characteristics when participants were informed that Roma had not socially integrated despite the various efforts on the part of the majority to integrate them. Researchers have shown that more cultural characteristics are attributed to the ingroup than to the Roma, whereas more natural characteristics are assigned to the Roma than to the ingroup in Great Britain and Romania [4], and in Italy [10].…”

Section: The Ontologization Approachmentioning

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“…In some cases, the very same stimulus word was used to measure animalistic dehumanization and ontologization. For instance, Saminaden, Loughnan and Haslam [20] have used stimuli words such as polite, analytic, impulsive and simple, whereas Berti, Pivetti and Di Battista [10] used educated, instinctive and simple.…”

Section: Ontologization and Dehumanization: An Attempt For Reconciliamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Participants rated one of the four targets, on a set of six randomly ordered associates. As for the ontologization process, we chose the same animal and human associates used in previous studies [10]. By means of two pilot studies, we obtained a list of seven automata-like associates to be used as a measure of mechanistic dehumanization.…”

Section: The Present Researchmentioning

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“…Participants indicated how well two animal (one negative: aggressive, and one positive: free), two human (one negative: cruel and one positive: intelligent) and two automata-like associates (one negative: rigid, and one positive: technological) described a typical Roma immigrant, a typical Romanian immigrant, a typical Chinese immigrant or a typical Italian target (1 = not at all; 7 = very well). Animal and human associates were selected from the previous study to measure the ontologization process [10], while automata associates were selected from Pilot Study 1 and 2 to measure mechanistic dehumanization. Based on an ad-hoc study, the animal negative and positive associates were rated equally in terms of negativity/positivity.…”

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Animal, Human and Robot Attribution: Ontologization of Roma, Romanian and Chinese Groups in an Italian Sample

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Pesole³

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Background: The socio-psychological ontologization approach focuses on the attribution of a different “ontology” to outgroup members, that is the attribution of animal (or natural) attributes to the outgroup, and human (or cultural) attributes to the ingroups. Objectives: This study aims to enrich the ontologization approach in two ways: (1) A theoretical development of the ontologization approach is proposed, by including the attribution of the essence of automata to outgroup members; (2) whether the ontologization process is also verified for the Romanian and Chinese group is investigated, whereas the ontologization process has traditionally focused on the Roma minority. Methods: This study explores the ontologization process of an ingroup member, a Roma, Romanian and Chinese immigrant target via the attribution of a set of six randomly ordered animal, human and robot associates to one of the four targets (N = 269). We tested the idea that devaluation of Chinese immigrants relies on a mechanistic form of ontologization, instead of an animalistic one, such as the case for the Roma and Romanian groups. Results: The study confirms the animalization of Roma and Romanian targets in Italy. Both groups were ontologized by attributing animal-like associates to them and denying human-like associates. The Chinese target was ontologized based on a mechanistic approach as it was attributed a more automata-like dimension than an animal or human dimension. Conclusion: The pattern of the results regarding the association between the Roma and Romanian outgroup and animal-status may have negative consequences for intergroup relations in terms of reduced prosocial and increased antisocial behaviours.

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Section: The Ontologization Approachmentioning

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Section: Ontologization and Dehumanization: An Attempt For Reconciliamentioning

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Section: The Present Researchmentioning

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Animal, Human and Robot Attribution: Ontologization of Roma, Romanian and Chinese Groups in an Italian Sample

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“…From a different perspective, by elaborating a taxonomical analysis of the speech in political proposals, Santa Ana (2002in Cisneros, 2008; see also Santa Ana 1999), found that a), when the nation is explained by means of body-related language (i.e., a body), immigrants are a burden or physical pain, and b), when the metaphor represents a house, immigrants are an invasion, theft, or even dangerous flooding. Finally, a large amount of side effects can be reported as well, such as a higher attribution of animalistic characteristics (Berti, Pivetti, & Di Battista, 2013), a stronger implicit face association to machines, a weaker face association to human traits (Bain, Park, Kwok, & Haslam, 2009), and a bigger perception of barbarian and valueless human beings in refugees (Esses, Veenvliet, Hodson, & Mihic, 2008).…”

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A menudo los inmigrantes y refugiados son representados a través de formas deshumanizantes o como una ganancia económica para los países receptores. Este hecho, sumado a la situación sociopolítica europea actual, puede aumentar los niveles de infrahumanización que sufren las minorías objeto de prejuicio. En este estudio, se propuso reducir la infrahumanización hacia la población magrebí a través de una actividad ritualizada, manipulando la información que los participantes utilizaban. Los resultados indicaron que la participación fue diferente según las condiciones y que se redujo la infrahumanización. Además, los participantes que utilizaron información utilitarista humanizaban cuando percibían una ganancia económica, mientras que también aumentaban sus niveles de prejuicio. Los resultados se discuten en términos de rituales colectivos y efectos duales de la información utilitarista.

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Human, Animal and Automata Attributions: an Investigation of the Multidimensionality of the Ontologization Process

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The ontologization process involves the use of social representation relating to the human–animal binary to classify ingroup and outgroup members. To date, no study has investigated the multidimensional nature (i.e. human, animal and automata) of the ontologizing process via structural equation modelling (SEM). Four hundred and twenty-one Italian participants were asked to attribute 24 positive/negative, human/animal/automata associates to each of three target groups: typical Roma/Chinese/Italian. Results showed that the proposed six-factor model (i.e. positive/negative, human/animal/automata essence) was statistically robust for each of the three groups. The Roma group was animalized by attributing more animal negative associates than any other target group, whereas the Chinese group was mainly given a robot positive essence.

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The ontologization of Romani: An Italian study on the cross-categorization approach

Cited by 10 publications

References 22 publications

Animal, Human and Robot Attribution: Ontologization of Roma, Romanian and Chinese Groups in an Italian Sample

Animal, Human and Robot Attribution: Ontologization of Roma, Romanian and Chinese Groups in an Italian Sample

Ritual experimental: ¿Humanizando a los inmigrantes o prejuicio utilitario en Europa?

Human, Animal and Automata Attributions: an Investigation of the Multidimensionality of the Ontologization Process

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