About

Shane Schweitzer is a doctoral candidate in Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management. His research investigates how people humanize and dehumanize others, as well as how people experience and understand their emotions. First, Shane studies how people construe others in terms of ‘human’ traits, such as the abilities to think and feel (i.e., humanization), as well as when people don’t (i.e., dehumanization). Second, he studies how people understand their emotions: specifically, how does sensemaking ability influence the experience of negative emotions? 

Several of Shane’s projects lie at the intersection of dehumanization and emotion. For example, how does humanizing others affect the anxiety one feels during a performance, such as an interview or public speech? How does dehumanizing someone affect the embarrassment one feels breaking social norms?