snowbabiez

Hi Nour,

One of your colleagues (Waytz) referred to dehumanization as "reverse-anthropomorphism". Do you think that the tendency to dehumanize and anthropomorphize others share the same social, motivational, and cognitive basis? For example, a person who see human where they shouldn't (in animals, God, clouds, etc) also is more likely not to acknowledge human traits in actual humans?

Thanks for your response! Actually I think that feeling physically threatened might contribute to the perception of unpredictability. When people feel like the other group (or people) are unpredictable, there might be an associated sense of loss of control.

In the act of anthropomorphism, sometimes people ascribe human traits to non-humans possibly in at attempt to make them more predictable (e.g. my dog is wagging his tail, he must be happy, maybe this thing that I did made him happy, I should do this more). Perhaps the sense of unpredictability involved in a group that might physically hurt them will contribute to the tendency to dehumanize them, just like how minority groups are often prejudiced against based on a significantly different cue (i.e. skin color).

u/snowbabiez here. Thanks for the question. Research has consistently shown that women prefer men with large genitalia. So a first step would be to flaunt it. Whenever you get an opportunity, you should always send a picture of your penis (ie a dick pic) so they know what they're missing out on. All the best!

Now you're just making me sad that I didn't manage to become his graduate student :(

Thank you for responding. This is what I thought I would hear from my advisor, although I have not spoken to him about this yet. I do enjoy research immensely. Will keep an eye out for HR departments and functions in the two years. Hope all is well with you. Stay safe!