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Story summary
- Three studies published in the Journal of Social Psychology show childfree people are perceived as less warm than adoptive parents, parents, and childless individuals, but more competent.
- Childfree women were rated lower in warmth than men.
- The studies involved participants from the United States and the United Kingdom, linking discrimination toward childfree people to dehumanization and pronatalist norms, suggesting a negative bias, with paid participants potentially limiting generalizability.
