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Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2019
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vol. 74
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issue 4
334 – 342
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The essay describes the various opportunities when to use the world timeliness. It understands topicality as an attribute that has arbitrary interpretation and is used with arbitrary meaning. He asks what factual reasons philosophy has if it is called actual. The main link is the devastation of the natural environment, which brings enormous and risky environmental consequences.
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During the last two decades almost all the utopias of freedom, communication, access and cultural diversity have faced, respectively, problems of cenzorship, e-invigilation, exclusion and aesthetic homogenization. The reflection on cyberculture in its first years was characterized by the development of methodology, fascination with the unknown, the lack of technical knowledge, access difficulties and a great enthusiasm. Therefore we can distinguish some common attitudes, like the fear of dehumanization and losing real contacts for the sake of virtual ones. Also, in the 90s were the decade of great interest in telepresence and cyborg-like body prosthetics. One of the key features is adding the prefix 'cyber-' to many words and relating to fiction (mostly literature and cinema). Artistic activity may be traced halfway between fiction and science-based technology. As network-based decentralization has played a positive role, it also has a double meaning. There is no responsibility and no direct enemy that may be criticised. This problem may be considered as a central aporia of the digital avantgarde, to use the term coined by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Since networks are no longer metaphors, as Eugene Thacker notices, they become real, but still unstable. Artists using networks are involved in many contexts, sometimes disappointed with utopias of freedom and visions of endless space. All this creates a complex picture of art within cyberculture twenty years after its emergence.
Psychologia Społeczna
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2011
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vol. 6
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issue 3(18)
202-213
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This paper reports studies on adaptation of a measure of an out-group infrahumanization effect introduced by Viki (Viki et al., 2006), which is based on differential attribution of typically human and typically animal related words. In the first experiment Polish research participant attributed significantly less human-related words and significantly more animal-related words to residents of Asia and Africa than to Europeans. In the second experiment Poles attributed less human-related words and more animal-related words to Gypsies and animals than to the other Poles. The outcomes confirm an infrahumanization hypothesis formulated by Leyens (Leyens et al., 2000; Leyens, 2009). Moreover the results of the second experiment indicate that there is no correlation between the out-group infrahumanization and in-group bias effects.
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„Swój” czy „obcy”? o mechanizmie dehumanizacji

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In the following considerations the author attempts to describe mechanisms of the process which he calls dehumanization. According to the author this process allows to explain mechanisms leading to genocide. For we know from history that “genocide is always preceded by dehumanization of future victims – all groups are dressed up in uniforms, and by bad life conditions perpetrators try to drive victims to such a state in which they will not arouse sympathy any more”. Strangers are always treated in a different way, as worse ones, subhumans. The author calls such phenomenon after Jacques-Philippe Leyens “infra-humanization, i.e. a subtle dehumanization of members of a group of strangers”. Creating emotional difference between these two groups results in not as much competition but, in the case of any dependence of one group on another one, in infrahumanization of the dependent one. The power of exclusion mechanism is also so mighty that the subordinate group generally accepts its oppressive situation. At the same time infra-humanization kills a part of humanity, depriving people of trust in others and of optimism in life.
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Based on the Tajfel’s and Turner’s Social Identity Theory an own research was constructed. The aim of the study was to check whether stereotyping and prejudices occur in relations between groups of army civilians and soldiers working together in the Polish Navy. In a questionnaire, 96 soldiers and 104 army civilians reported perceptions of their own vocational group and of the out-group and expressed dehumanization of the in- and out-group members. Respondents showed in-group favoritism in trait and emotion evaluations, but mutual dehumanization did not occur. However, it is interesting to note that, the group of regular soldiers was dehumanizing itself. The most important finding for practice is that members of both groups who have participated in integration workshops showed lower in-group favoritism, than integration non-participants. The implications of these results are discussed.
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