Some of human history's greatest atrocities—genocide, slavery, ethnic cleanings—are rooted in our ability to dehumanize people from other social, political, or cultural groups. Whereas prior research ...

Cards Against Humanity! If you run around in any even-slightly-geeky circles, you’ve probably heard of it. But in case you somehow haven’t: take Apples to Apples and make it terribly offensive. As in, ...

Humans are hardwired for empathy, which means we are prone to treat other people’s struggles with compassion and sympathy. This rule, however, doesn’t apply when the other people in question can be ...

One of gym classes’ most common games is being used as a tool of “oppression,” according to a team of Canadian researchers. Dodgeball in phys-ed classes teaches students to dehumanize and harm their ...

In 2016, 17,250 people were killed in the United States. How does thinking about that make you feel—on a scale of 1 to 100, with 1 being “not at all upset” and 100 being “as upset as I could imagine ...