Analysis

Dehumanization and infrahumanization involve decreasing the humanity attributed to

others. Despite the existence of a large body of work on these topics, little is known about
how to increase outgroup humanization. Across two experiments, we examined the effects
of intergroup and intragroup helping on dehumanization and infrahumanization.

Dehumanization is the process of denying humanity to others, a process which reduces

moral concern, and can facilitate atrocious intergroup behaviour, including genocide in
World War II when the Nazis compared Jews to vermin, or during the Rwandan genocide
when Tutsis were compared to cockroaches [1]. Although the examples above represent the
likening of others to animals (i.e., animalistic dehumanization), dehumanization can also
manifest itself as mechanistic whereby others are seen as machine-like (i.e., mechanistic
dehumanization)

Despite an abundance of research on dehumanization, little is known about how to increase

the humanity attributed to others. The limited research examining ways to increase
humanization has provided participants with information about the target e.g., including a
superordinate human identity ; the perceiver, e.g., manipulating feelings of power; or the
nature of intergroup relations.

However, other work has demonstrated that knowledge of an outgroup helping a third party
also reduces dehumanization of the outgroup that offered assistance 

Questions have been examined that have tested the effects of intergroup and intragroup
help both on infrahumanization and dehumanization .

we hypothesized that (1) news of an outgroup helping the ingroup would decrease both
infrahumanization and dehumanization of an outgroup; (2) news of the ingroup helping the
outgroup would also lead to less infrahumanization and dehumanization of the outgroup as
a function of the amount of aid offered. In Study 2, we sought to replicate and extend the
same expected findings by additionally testing (3) whether intragroup helping (i.e.,
knowledge of the ingroup helping itself, and the outgroup helping itself) would affect
infrahumanization and dehumanization of the outgroup. We did not have directional
predictions for our third hypothesis.

Speaking of the humanization of humanitarian law or the law of war is, therefore, in many
ways a contradiction in terms. Consider, for example, the term law of war "unnecessary
suffering." To genuinely humanize humanitarian law, it would be necessary to end all types
of armed conflict. But wars have been part of the human condition since the fight between
Cain and Abel, and sadly they likely continue to be.

That said, we find an energy poverty in northern Ireland, where the humanized is difficult
for households with vulnerability, Households often do not have access to energy or co-
fuel, since policies do not recognize the complex interaction between households, income
and domestic energy efficiency, and the resulting high level of variability, exploring this
interaction at the household level and the diversity of energy poverty that occurs among
households in Northern Ireland.

Due to this, a program called pencil portraits is carried out, which represents some details
such as: Characteristics of the home (age, number of people, etc.); Tenure; Age of the
property; Type of property (single-family, semi-detached or semi-detached); Geographic
location (large urban area, small urban area, village or rural area); Heating system; Fuel
type; Insulation level of walls, ceilings, windows and hot water systems; Welfare benefits
received (if any); Total annual energy cost; Annual income; You need to spend on energy
and eligibility for subsidized energy efficiency measures.

And thus obtain the information on the welfare benefits of the pencil portraits, and thus
define whether or not each household is eligible for an intervention. Eligibility for
subsidized energy efficiency measures under the WH plan is limited to "vulnerable"
households, that is, those that include someone over 60, someone under 16 and / or
someone with a disability or long-term limiting disease.
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