Abstract
Outgroup infrahumanization in relation to inference and memory processes. One of the strategies to infrahumanize the outgroup member is to deny the capacity of feel secondary emotions or sentiments. The aim of this study is to verify whether this strategy is related to memory and inference of behaviors which involve secondary emotions or sentiments. To confirm this hypothesis, an experimental study was carried out, showing that people infer faster secondary emotions if the behavior is done by an ingroup member than by an outgroup member. Furthermore, when emotional terms are used as cues for sentence recalling, people remembered more sentences said by an ingroup member than by an outgroup member. However, when no cue is given, differences in sentences recalled by ingroup and out group members were not significant.
