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Despite successful manipulation of key variables, our studies found no evidence of infrahumanization following harm. Our work casts doubt on prior claims in the field, and contributes to an ongoing debate on the validity of psychological theories of dehumanization in explaining urgent social issues.

The final study reused the climate change context, but with more sensitive continuous measures that captured participants’ own views of emotion humanness and valence. Again, post-harm infrahumanization did not replicate, and harmed outgroup members were seen as experiencing more negative emotions.

Study 2 had a similar trend: Infrahumanization following harm did not occur in UK residents' perceptions of exploited textile workers in fast fashion supply chains. Again, awareness of harm led to greater attribution of negative emotions, regardless of emotion humanness or feeling responsible for it

In Study 1, this effect failed to replicate in UK residents’ perceptions of the emotions felt by people in Lagos, Nigeria, a city especially vulnerable to climate change. Regardless of responsibility or emotion humanness, one's awareness of outgroup harm led to more negative emotions being perceived

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