Human, Animal and Automata Attributions: an Investigation of the Multidimensionality of the Ontologization Process

The ontologization process involves the use of social representation relating to the human–animal binary to classify ingroup and outgroup members. To date, no study has investigated the multidimensional nature (i.e. human, animal and automata) of the ontologizing process via structural equation mode...

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Autores principales: Pivetti, Monica, Melotti, Giannino, Meneghini, Anna Maria, Puntin, Elisa, Villano, Paola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2022
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Arena of Technologies
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8970648/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42087-022-00277-8
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author Pivetti, Monica
Melotti, Giannino
Meneghini, Anna Maria
Puntin, Elisa
Villano, Paola
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description The ontologization process involves the use of social representation relating to the human–animal binary to classify ingroup and outgroup members. To date, no study has investigated the multidimensional nature (i.e. human, animal and automata) of the ontologizing process via structural equation modelling (SEM). Four hundred and twenty-one Italian participants were asked to attribute 24 positive/negative, human/animal/automata associates to each of three target groups: typical Roma/Chinese/Italian. Results showed that the proposed six-factor model (i.e. positive/negative, human/animal/automata essence) was statistically robust for each of the three groups. The Roma group was animalized by attributing more animal negative associates than any other target group, whereas the Chinese group was mainly given a robot positive essence.
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spelling pubmed-89706482022-04-01 Human, Animal and Automata Attributions: an Investigation of the Multidimensionality of the Ontologization Process Pivetti, Monica Melotti, Giannino Meneghini, Anna Maria Puntin, Elisa Villano, Paola Hu Arenas Arena of Technologies The ontologization process involves the use of social representation relating to the human–animal binary to classify ingroup and outgroup members. To date, no study has investigated the multidimensional nature (i.e. human, animal and automata) of the ontologizing process via structural equation modelling (SEM). Four hundred and twenty-one Italian participants were asked to attribute 24 positive/negative, human/animal/automata associates to each of three target groups: typical Roma/Chinese/Italian. Results showed that the proposed six-factor model (i.e. positive/negative, human/animal/automata essence) was statistically robust for each of the three groups. The Roma group was animalized by attributing more animal negative associates than any other target group, whereas the Chinese group was mainly given a robot positive essence. Springer International Publishing 2022-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8970648/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42087-022-00277-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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