Attitudinal Ambiguity and Dehumanization

  • Lopez, Jessica
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Publication date
June 2020
Publisher
The University of Chicago

Abstract

People generally enjoy acts of self-expression, going out of their way to share their preferences and opinions even absent a decision. However, people are nevertheless not always forthcoming with how they truly feel, fearing that their views will be judged negatively by others or that they will be seen as unprofessional. In other cases, they may simply lack a preference altogether. Is failing to state how one feels, in terms of one’s preferences and opinions, either because one is concealing them or because one lacks them, a good move socially or one with (possibly hidden) costs? How do we perceive such individuals? Across two chapters, I investigate how preferences and opinions (or lack thereof) link to humanity. Chapter 1 examines percept...

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