The Narrative Categorical Content Analysis toolkit (abbreviated as NarrCat) decomposes narratives into distinct, quantifiable psychological processes. In this study, NarrCat was applied to analyze New Zealand’s historical “Speeches from the Throne” from 1854 to 1913 (68 speeches). Specifically, NarrCat’s cognition, emotion, and intention modules were applied to analyze patterns of psychological perspective, or psychological states, attributed to various groups in the speeches (Māori, British settlers, and British governing elites). This allowed us to examine infrahumanization bias, as denoted by patterns of language, in New Zealand’s governing discourses during colonization. Results showed that Māori were infrahumanized compared with the British settlers overall. However, only British Governing elites were attributed significantly greater agency (i.e., cognition and intention) in inferences of their psychological perspective compared with other groups. Theoretical implications of these findings are discussed through the lens of infrahumanization theory, as well as colonizing discourses like the British Enlightenment and Good Māori–Bad Māori discourse.

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叙事的自动分析：NarrCat 和文本中超人性化偏见的识别

叙事分类内容分析工具包（缩写为 NarrCat）将叙事分解为不同的、可量化的心理过程。在这项研究中，NarrCat 被用于分析新西兰从 1854 年到 1913 年的历史“王座演讲”（68 篇演讲）。具体来说，NarrCat 的认知、情感和意图模块被应用于分析心理视角或心理状态的模式，归因于演讲中的不同群体（毛利人、英国定居者和英国统治精英）。这使我们能够在新西兰殖民时期的统治话语中检查由语言模式表示的非人类化偏见。结果表明，与英国定居者的整体相比，毛利人是非人性化的。然而，与其他群体相比，只有英国的执政精英在​​他们的心理观点的推断中被归因于显着更大的能动性（即认知和意图）。这些发现的理论意义通过非人类化理论以及英国启蒙运动和 Good Māori-Bad Māori 等殖民话语的视角进行了讨论。