Highlights•People with mental health conditions experience both self-and meta-
dehumanization.•Self-dehumanization can be a factor in mental health conditions (eg …

Highlights•Dehumanization can serve as an emotion regulation strategy when facing
suffering.•In healthcare, this can be helpful or hurtful depending on context.•Healthcare …

Previous research has identified that both low‐and high‐socio‐economic groups tend to be
dehumanized. However, groups that have a deprived position are more willing to interiorize …

In a permanent quest for profit, employees can be reduced to a mere function or instrument,
dissociated from their quality as individuals for the organization's ends. Experiencing such a …

Everyday maltreatments can threaten people's basic sense of being human. Can victims
restore their sense of humanness after it has been damaged by an offense and, if so, how …

Despite the increasing wage disparities and the unfair distribution of resources in many
organizations, there have not been enough academic explorations into the role of these …

Metadehumanization, the perception of being treated as less than a human by others, is a
pervasive phenomenon in intergroup relations. It is dissociated from stigmatization or …

Recent research has revealed that work often can undermine people's humanness by
promoting a view of them as mere objects. In particular, the workers' meta‐perceptions of …

Highlights•The dehumanization literature should consider the interrelationships between
other-, self-, and meta-dehumanization (ie the feeling of being dehumanized).•Reciprocal …

This research examines the relationship between metadehumanization, that is, perceiving
dehumanizing treatments, and self-dehumanization, that is, perceiving oneself as less than …