The role of intergroup interaction in dehumanizing another person: experimental research

The role of intergroup interaction in dehumanizing another person:experimental study: 68 pages, 3 hours, 1 table, 9 figures, 2 appendices, 44 sources.KEY WORDS: DEHUMANIZATION, DEBATE, INTERGROUPINTERACTION, COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY,PSYCHODYNAMIC THERAPY.The proposed study contains a detailed study of the role of intergroupinteraction in the dehumanization of another person. In studying dehumanization, mostresearchers attach great importance to the analysis of ethnic, religious andsocial differences and little focus on interaction within alreadyformed groups. Students are involved in this experimental studymaster's degree, who chose different directions: psychodynamic andcognitive behavioral therapy. Modern researchers, unfortunately, bypass itpsychoanalytic approach, considering the phenomenon of dehumanization, although this phenomenonis formed at the intersection of the conscious and the unconscious. Therefore, in the current workan attempt was made to understand this phenomenon through the psychoanalytic paradigm ofusing qualitative and quantitative methods, namely: observation,experiment and questionnaire.As a result of the conducted research, it was possible to conclude thatrepresentatives of the mentioned areas are subject to experimentation in different waysinfluence: there are more representatives of the cognitive-behavioral directiondehumanize in the control sample and less dehumanize inexperimental, and representatives of the psychodynamic direction are almost notexposed to influences. The obtained results lead to further studydehumanization and intergroup interaction, and encourage detailedstudying the differences between cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamicparadigms.