Asians in the U.S. are more likely to be likened to robots or machines, viewed as lacking human feeling and emotion compared to other groups in the United States, according to National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded research by Franki Kung, associate professor in the Purdue University Department of Psychological Sciences. As an industrial-organizational and social psychologist, Kung is interested in exploring workplace practices that condone this phenomenon of mechanistic dehumanization \u2014 a type of dehumanization that strips people of their individuality and human nature \u2014 and approaches to change it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":44672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[263,387,957,2336,2333,2194,240,176,2335,2334],"class_list":["post-44671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychological-sciences","category-research","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-department-of-psychological-sciences","tag-franki-kung","tag-hannah-kim","tag-mechanistic-dehumanization","tag-national-science-foundation","tag-purdue-university","tag-research","tag-rick-yang","tag-sharon-li"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n