The Neuroscience of Dehumanization

Dehumanization is about turning off the parts of your brain that allow you to understand what it is like to be someone else You may remember Anders Braevik the Norwegian who murdered 77 young people in 2011. He knew that his own training regime was about de-emotionalizing I mean he phrased exactly what we've been talking about here so far. The social context that allows Syndrome E these emotional regions are no longer online and so Their neighbors are not like humans to them anymore.