title: Infrahumanization in children: An evaluation of 70 terms relating to humanity.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Research on infrahumanization has revealed that individuals attribute more secondary emotions to the in-group than to the out-group, whose capacity to experience them is denied or restricted. When this bias has been examined in children, researchers have used the same taxonomy of affective terms as that used with adults. The aim of this research is to conduct a normative study that will equip researchers with a taxonomy of humanity attributed to emotional terms specifically for children.
  
  
  METHODS
  Three hundred and sixty-three children aged between 11 and 12 responded to several questionnaires containing a total of 70 emotional terms, evaluated in eight dimensions associated with the perception of humanity.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Principal component analysis shows that children categorize implicit dimensions associated with humanity differently to adults.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This normative study enables the selection of graded emotional terms in humanity perceived by a child sample, in order to overcome current limitations in research on infrahumanization in children.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de La Laguna.
authors.forename: Verónica
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Betancor Rodríguez
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chas Villar
authors.forename: Armando
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Pérez
authors.forename: Naira
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Delgado Rodríguez
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004644:Emotions; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires