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I Am More Human than You

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:43 pm
by seeker
Zimbardo wrote:
We deny uniquely human traits and even human nature to others, relative to our own egocentric standard. This self-humanization bias is the complement of the other-infrahumanization bias. These tendencies appear to be rather general and multifaceted. (Chapter 13)
But does knowing that such a bias exists give us the power to correct for it?