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"Three Florida teenagers recently pleaded not guilty to the brutal beatings and in one case, death, of homeless men. One of the beatings was caught on surveillance video and in a most chilling way illustrates how people can degrade socially outcast individuals, enough to engage in mockery, physical abuse, and even murder. According to new research, the brain processes social outsiders as less than human; brain imaging provides accurate depictions of this prejudice at an unconscious level."
"Dehumanizing the Lowest of the Low: Neuro-imaging responses to Extreme Outgroups"
Lasana Harris and Susan Fiske
Reported in the article in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science [Sub required]
