Crossing the Line: Disgust, Dehumanization, and Human Rights Violations

被引:4
作者
Rousseau, David L. [1 ,2 ]
Gorman, Brandon [3 ,5 ]
Baranik, Lisa E. [4 ]
机构
[1] SUNY Albany, Dept Polit Sci, Albany, NY USA
[2] SUNY Albany, Coll Emergency Preparedness Homeland Secur & Cyber, Albany, NY USA
[3] SUNY Albany, Sociol, Albany, NY USA
[4] SUNY Albany, Massry Sch Business, Management, Albany, NY USA
[5] SUNY Albany, Dept Sociol, 1400 Washington Ave,Arts & Sci 351, Albany, NY 12222 USA
关键词
disgust; torture; emotion; human rights; and dehumanization; SOCIAL-DOMINANCE ORIENTATION; RIGHT-WING AUTHORITARIANISM; MORAL DISGUST; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; ANGER; SENSITIVITY; EMOTIONS; CONFLICT; DOMAINS; TORTURE;
D O I
10.1177/23780231231157686
中图分类号
C91 [社会学];
学科分类号
030301 ; 1204 ;
摘要
What leads Americans to support human rights violations? The authors explore the role of disgust on dehumanization and support for retaliatory human rights violations, including support for torture, targeting noncombatants, and extrajudicial killing. Using a survey experiment, the authors find that American respondents are disgusted with outgroups whose behaviors violate global human rights norms. These feelings of disgust lead respondents to dehumanize these outgroups and support hypothetical human rights violations against past violators as well as noncombatants ostensibly affiliated with them. Although the experimental vignettes also triggered anger and sadness in participants, only disgust reactions consistently produced dehumanization and support for human rights violations against outgroups. The results indicate that global human rights norms delineate not only acceptable behavior toward others but also the boundaries between those deserving and undeserving of human rights protections.
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