ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a definition of humiliation and it discusses relevant boundary conditions such as chronic discrimination experience and sensitivity, and audience effects. It outlines the effects of humiliation on the individual neuro-cognitive level and it explores how the brain processes the humiliation experience. The chapter considers specific consequences of humiliation on cognitive functions and report findings of humiliation in intergroup settings. It investigates humiliation in intercultural settings, drawing attention to the differential perception based on honor, and on the political stage, for example within the globalized perception of humiliating acts. The chapter reviews the intervention attempts to alleviate experiences of humiliation. Humiliation follows from a range of interpersonal experiences, such as degradation, ridicule, being put down and identity devaluation. The Studies from the laboratory shows that similar acts can evoke different levels of humiliation depending on the broader social situation. The chapter explores the intergroup humiliation perception in the Netherlands also from the perspective of the Dutch majority population.
