Date of Award
1-2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
College/School
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department/Program
Psychology
Thesis Sponsor/Dissertation Chair/Project Chair
Kenneth Sumner
Committee Member
Saundra Collins
Committee Member
Daniel Simonet
Abstract
This study asks if infrahumanization a detectable individual trait, and how empathy and emotional literacy predict infrahumanization or emotional bias between groups. Black and white participants did not systematically attribute more distinctly human emotions to characters of different races in a series of vignettes, nor did cognitive empathy, empathic capacity, or anti-social personality traits predict a difference in emotional bias.
Recommended Citation
Tobin, Courtney, "Measurements of Emotional Attributional Biases : A Confirmatory Study of Infrahumanization" (2017). Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects. 9.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/etd/9