Aliens dehumanization-3

This study will be a follow-up of the previous studies registered from osf.io/6vdyj. As in the previous studies, the current research will investigate (i) the influence of dehumanisation and devaluation on endorsing the utilitarian decisions and (ii) how judging utilitarian decisions as inherently moral is related to the dehumanisation and devaluation of the harmed group. There will be three changes in the current study. The design of the experiment will be converted from within subjects to between subjects factorial design, mental capacity attribution measure will be extended by involving agency and experience attribution (Gray, Gray & Wegner, 2007) and the first and third hypothesises below are included in the current study

Aliens dehumanization-1

The current study is the second study related to the first study named as aliens dehumanization 1

Aliens dehumanization-2

The current study is the third study related to the first study named as aliens dehumanization 1

Fairness

Although fairness is a concept that is agreed to be required, what is considered fair can vary depending on factors such as situation, held values, and who is the subject of fair treatment. This study will investigate fairness in economic situations and examine (i) the impact of political orientation and income level (low vs. high) of people to be treated fairly, the amount of money they give (all income vs. a small amount of income) and how the repayment is made (equal vs. input-based fairness solution) on fairness and (ii) how those people who is to be treated fairly are perceived in moral characters

Study 5- dehumanisation in real-life moral dilemmas

This study will be a follow-up of the previous studies registered from osf.io/6vdyj. Previous studies have demonstrated that when a direct comparison between the saved and the harmed group was salient, the harmed group was dehumanised and devalued compared to the saved group. But when the direct comparison was not salient, the effect of target group status was significant only on devaluation. The aim of the current study is to test the generalisability of the previous findings to real-life situations. In this respect, we will replicate one of the previous studies in a real-life situation, including a traffic-relevant moral dilemma. Apart from the previous studies, it will also investigate whether objectification is also used as a defensive response

Study 7

This study will be a follow-up to the previous studies of this project with three alterations

Aliens dehumanization-study 6

This study will be a replication of study 5 with some changes

Dehumanisation

Previous studies have been heavily handled dehumanisation with one of its dimensions and investigated the influence of this dimension on social phenomena such as extreme violence (i.e., Bandura, Barbaranelli, Caprara & Pastorelli, 1966), intergroup helping (i.e., Andrighetto, Baldissari, Lattanzio, Loughnan & Volpato, 2014) and moral status (Bastian, Laham, Wilson, Haslam & Koval, 2011). This study aims to (i) investigate dehumanisation with a holistic approach through taking various dimensions and (ii) how each of them is relevant to each other and moral considerations. The moral consideration will be investigated in terms of affirming positive and negative rights