Participants who witnessed an exclusion game judged the victim as less human on both Human Nature and Human Uniqueness domains.

Evidence

Observing Social Exclusion Leads to Dehumanizing the Victim (Frontiers in Psychology)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Accusations of extreme wrongdoing can dehumanize scapegoats. — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 82; Dehumanization causes perpetrators to perceive victims as nonhuman and therefore not entitled to moral obligation — Dehumanization increases instrumental violence, but not moral violence; Successful dehumanizing creates moral exclusion, placing targeted groups outside the scope of moral protection — Dehumanizing Always Starts With Language (+1 more)