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Overview

Jeroen Vaes is affiliated with the University of Trento in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, with a particular focus on social psychology and related subfields.

Their research spans several areas within psychology, including:

  • Social Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Sociology and Political Science

Vaes has explored diverse topics throughout their career, covering:

  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Face Recognition and Perception

Their recent papers include:

  • "Of precarity and conspiracy: Introducing a socio-functional model of conspiracy beliefs," 2022, British Journal of Social Psychology
  • "Lacking socio-economic status reduces subjective well-being through perceptions of meta-dehumanization," 2020, British Journal of Social Psychology
  • "Seven Clarifications on the Psychology of Dehumanization," 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Sexual objectification: advancements and avenues for future research," 2023, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • "Dehumanization after all: Distinguishing intergroup evaluation from trait-based dehumanization," 2022, Cognition

The frequent publication venues for Vaes's research include:

  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • British Journal of Social Psychology
  • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science

Over their career, Vaes has collaborated regularly with various coauthors, some prominent ones being:

  • Daniela Ruzzante
  • Maria Paola Paladino
  • Bianca Monachesi
  • Alessandro Grecucci
  • Jaïs Adam-Troian

The scope and interdisciplinary approach of Vaes's work reflect engagement with evolutionary, social, and cognitive aspects of psychology. Their studies probe into intergroup relations, dehumanization, social exclusion, and other relevant phenomena within human behavior and societal perception.

Best Publications

  • The Emotional Side of Prejudice: The Attribution of Secondary Emotions to Ingroups and Outgroups

    Jacques-Philippe Leyens;Paola M. Paladino;Ramon Rodriguez-Torres;Jeroen Vaes

  • Psychological essentialism and the differential attribution of uniquely human emotions to ingroups and outgroups

    Jacques‐Philippe Leyens;Armando Rodriguez‐Perez;Ramon Rodriguez‐Torres;Ruth Gaunt

  • Objectification leads to depersonalization: The denial of mind and moral concern to objectified others

    Steve Loughnan;Steve Loughnan;Nick Haslam;Tess Murnane;Jeroen Vaes

  • Infra-humanization: The wall of group differences

    Jacques-Philippe Leyens;Stéphanie Demoulin;Jeroen Vaes;Ruth Gaunt

  • Are sexualized women complete human beings? Why men and women dehumanize sexually objectified women

    Jeroen Vaes;Paola Paladino;Elisa Puvia

  • Emotional prejudice, essentialism, and nationalism - The 2002 Tajfel lecture

    Jacques‐Philippe Leyens;Brezo Cortes;Stéphanie Demoulin;Stéphanie Demoulin;John F. Dovidio

  • On the behavioral consequences of infrahumanization: the implicit role of uniquely human emotions in intergroup relations.

    Jeroen Andre' Filip Vaes;M. P. Paladino;Luigi Alessandro Castelli;J. P. H. Leyens

  • We are human, they are not: Driving forces behind outgroup dehumanisation and the humanisation of the ingroup

    Jeroen Vaes;Jacques-Philippe Leyens;Maria Paola Paladino;Mariana Pires Miranda

  • Economic Inequality Is Linked to Biased Self-Perception

    Steve Loughnan;Steve Loughnan;Steve Loughnan;Peter Kuppens;Peter Kuppens;Jüri Allik;Katalin Balazs

  • Defensive dehumanization in the medical practice: A cross-sectional study from a health care worker's perspective

    Jeroen Vaes;Martina Muratore

  • Emotional prejudice can lead to infra-humanisation

    Stephanie Demoulin;Ramon Rodriguez Torres;Armando Rodriguez Perez;Jeroen Vaes

  • Humanness and dehumanization.

    Paul G. Bain;Jeroen Vaes;Jacques Philippe Leyens

  • The lost e-mail: prosocial reactions induced by uniquely human emotions.

    Jeroen Vaes;Maria-Paola Paladino;Jacques-Philippe Leyens

  • The uniquely human content of stereotypes

    Jeroen Vaes;Maria Paola Paladino

  • The Cognitive Representation of Self-Stereotyping

    Marcella Latrofa;Jeroen Andre' Filip Vaes;Maria Rosaria Cadinu;A. Carnaghi

  • Being a Body : Women’s Appearance Related Self-Views and their Dehumanization of Sexually Objectified Female Targets

    Elisa Puvia;Jeroen Vaes

  • "We are people": ingroup humanization as an existential defense.

    Jeroen Vaes;Nathan A. Heflick;Jamie L. Goldenberg

  • “United We Stand, Divided We Fall”! The Protective Function of Self‐Stereotyping for Stigmatised Members’ Psychological Well‐Being

    Marcella Latrofa;Jeroen Andre' Filip Vaes;Massimiliano Pastore;Maria Rosaria Cadinu

  • Exploring the role of culture in sexual objectification: A seven nations study

    Steve Loughnan;Silvia Fernandez-Campos;Jeroen Vaes;Gulnaz Anjum

  • Folk Conceptions of Humanness: Beliefs About Distinctive and Core Human Characteristics in Australia, Italy, and China

    Paul Bain;Jeroen Vaes;Yoshihisa Kashima;Nick Haslam

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Paola Paladino
Maria Paola Paladino University of Trento
Jacques-Philippe Leyens
Jacques-Philippe Leyens Université Catholique de Louvain
Steve Loughnan
Steve Loughnan University of Edinburgh
Paul G. Bain
Paul G. Bain University of Bath
Nick Haslam
Nick Haslam University of Melbourne
Jamie L. Goldenberg
Jamie L. Goldenberg University of South Florida
Brock Bastian
Brock Bastian University of Melbourne
Jeff Greenberg
Jeff Greenberg University of Arizona
Luigi Castelli
Luigi Castelli University of Padua
Peter Kuppens
Peter Kuppens KU Leuven

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