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Overview

Brock Bastian is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research predominantly spans the field of psychology, with a significant focus on social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Their work also intersects with sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, and clinical psychology.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Animal and Plant Science Education
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Bastian's frequent co-authors consist of:

  • Catherine E. Amiot
  • Christoph Klebl
  • Panagiotis Mitkidis
  • Peter Kuppens
  • Steve Loughnan

They have published extensively in venues such as:

  • Scientific Reports
  • PLoS ONE
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Journal of Happiness Studies

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Brock Bastian include:

  • "National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Neuroticism may not reflect emotional variability," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Pet ownership and psychological well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations," 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Multinational data show that conspiracy beliefs are associated with the perception (and reality) of poor national economic performance," 2022, European Journal of Social Psychology

Bastian's research contributions address diverse topics such as public health support linked to national identity, emotional variability related to neuroticism, psychological impacts of pet ownership during a global crisis, and broader psychological and methodological issues emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic. The work also covers the societal perception of economic performance influenced by conspiracy beliefs.

Best Publications

  • When group membership gets personal: A theory of identity fusion.

    William B. Swann Jr.;Jolanda Jetten;Ángel Gómez;Harvey Whitehouse

  • Psychological essentialism and stereotype endorsement

    Brock Bastian;Nick Haslam

  • More human than you: Attributing humanness to self and others

    Nick Haslam;Paul Bain;Lauren Douge;Max Lee

  • The role of meat consumption in the denial of moral status and mind to meat animals

    Steve Loughnan;Nick Haslam;Brock Bastian

  • Don’t Mind Meat? The Denial of Mind to Animals Used for Human Consumption

    Brock Bastian;Steve Loughnan;Steve Loughnan;Nick Haslam;Helena R. M. Radke

  • Excluded from humanity: The dehumanizing effects of social ostracism

    Brock Bastian;Nick Haslam

  • The Discrete Emotions Questionnaire: A New Tool for Measuring State Self-Reported Emotions.

    Cindy Harmon-Jones;Brock Bastian;Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • Toward a psychology of human–animal relations.

    Catherine E. Amiot;Brock Bastian

  • Resolving the Meat-Paradox A Motivational Account of Morally Troublesome Behavior and Its Maintenance

    Brock Bastian;Brock Bastian;Stephen Loughnan

  • Psychological essentialism, implicit theories, and intergroup relations

    Nick Haslam;Brock Bastian;Paul Bain;Yoshihisa Kashima

  • Experiencing Dehumanization: Cognitive and Emotional Effects of Everyday Dehumanization

    Brock Bastian;Nick Haslam

  • The Psychology of Eating Animals

    Steve Loughnan;Brock Bastian;Nick Haslam

  • What makes a group worth dying for? Identity fusion fosters perception of familial ties, promoting self-sacrifice.

    William B. Swann;Michael D. Buhrmester;Angel Gómez;Jolanda Jetten

  • Essentialist Beliefs about Personality and Their Implications

    Nick Haslam;Brock Bastian;Melanie Bissett

  • Moral expansiveness: Examining variability in the extension of the moral world.

    Daniel Crimston;Paul G Bain;Matthew J Hornsey;Brock Bastian

  • Pain as Social Glue Shared Pain Increases Cooperation

    Brock Bastian;Jolanda Jetten;Laura J. Ferris

  • The Roles of Dehumanization and Moral Outrage in Retributive Justice

    Brock Bastian;Thomas F. Denson;Nick Haslam

  • The effect of categorization as food on the perceived moral standing of animals

    Boyka Bratanova;Steve Loughnan;Brock Bastian

  • National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic

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  • Blaming, praising, and protecting our humanity: the implications of everyday dehumanization for judgments of moral status.

    Brock Bastian;Simon M Laham;Samuel Wilson;Nick Haslam

  • Big Five traits mediate associations between values and subjective well-being

    Nick Haslam;Jennifer Whelan;Brock Bastian

Frequent Co-Authors

Nick Haslam
Nick Haslam University of Melbourne
Jolanda Jetten
Jolanda Jetten University of Queensland
Paul G. Bain
Paul G. Bain University of Bath
Peter Kuppens
Peter Kuppens KU Leuven
Peter Koval
Peter Koval University of Melbourne
Steve Loughnan
Steve Loughnan University of Edinburgh
Ángel Gómez
Ángel Gómez National University of Distance Education
William B. Swann
William B. Swann The University of Texas at Austin
Matthew J. Hornsey
Matthew J. Hornsey University of Queensland
Catherine E. Amiot
Catherine E. Amiot University of Quebec at Montreal

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