#### [[Infrahumanization]] --- > [...] is the tacitly held belief that one's ingroup^[[[Innangard and Utangard|innangarðr]]] is more human than an outgroup^[[[Innangard and Utangard|útangarðr]]], which is less human. The term was coined by Jacques-Philippe Leyens and colleagues in the early 2000s to distinguish what they argue to be an everyday phenomenon from dehumanization (denial of humanness) associated with extreme intergroup violence such as genocide. According to Leyens and colleagues, infrahumanisation arises when people view their ingroup and outgroup as essentially different (different in essence) and accordingly reserve the "human essence"^[[[The axe forgets but the tree remembers]]] for the ingroup and deny it to the outgroup. Whether a "subhuman" classification means "human but inferior" or "not human at all" may be academic, as in practice it corresponds to prejudice regardless (for example, compare the Nazi idea of the Untermensch). ^cd74bd --- Tags: [[Society]] - [[Empathy]] - [[Clique]] - [[Societal Norms]] - [[Social Groups]] Reference: Related: - [[Tribalism]] - [[No one really cares]] - [[Sonder]]