Metadehumanization erodes democratic norms during the 2020 presidential election

The present research directly replicates past work suggesting that metadehumanization , the perception that another group dehumanizes your own group, erodes Americans’ support for democratic norms. In the days surrounding the 2020 US Presidential Election, American political partisans perceived that their political opponents dehumanized them more than was actually the case. Partisans’ exaggerated metadehumanization inspired reciprocal...