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Steve Loughnan publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Steve Loughnan sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 117 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Steve Loughnan D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Steve Loughnan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Steve Loughnan is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and social sciences, with a particular focus on social psychology and related subfields.

The main fields of study in which Loughnan has published include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Their work further delves into specialized subfields such as:

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

Loughnan's research topics cover several key themes, including:

  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts

Selected recent publications by Loughnan include:

  • 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
  • Unpalatable truths: Commitment to eating meat is associated with strategic ignorance of food-animal minds, 2022, Appetite
  • Belief in Pigs' Capacity to Suffer: An Assessment of Pig Farmers, Veterinarians, Students, and Citizens, 2020, Anthrozoös
  • Trust in scientific information mediates associations between conservatism and coronavirus responses in the U.S., but few other nations, 2022, Scientific Reports

Frequent collaborators in Loughnan's body of work include:

  • Victoria Wai Lan Yeung
  • Michał Bilewicz
  • Ángel Gómez
  • Sarah C. E. Stanton
  • Brock Bastian

Prominent venues where Loughnan has frequently published comprise:

  • Anthrozoös
  • Scientific Reports
  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Animals
  • British Journal of Social Psychology

Best Publications

  • Dehumanization and infrahumanization.

    Nick Haslam;Steve Loughnan;Steve Loughnan

  • Rationalizing meat consumption. The 4Ns.

    Jared Piazza;Matthew B. Ruby;Steve Loughnan;Mischel Luong

  • 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

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

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

  • Attributing and denying humanness to others

    Nick Haslam;Stephen Loughnan;Yoshihisa Kashima;Paul Bain

  • Animals and androids: Implicit associations between social categories and nonhumans

    Stephen Loughnan;Nick Haslam

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

    Brock Bastian;Brock Bastian;Stephen Loughnan

  • The Psychology of Eating Animals

    Steve Loughnan;Brock Bastian;Nick Haslam

  • Subhuman, inhuman, and superhuman: Contrasting humans with nonhumans in three cultures

    Nick Haslam;Yoshihisa Kashima;Stephen Loughnan;Junqi Shi

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

    Boyka Bratanova;Steve Loughnan;Brock Bastian

  • Sexual Objectification Increases Rape Victim Blame and Decreases Perceived Suffering

    Steve Loughnan;Afroditi Pina;Eduardo A. Vasquez;Elisa Puvia

  • What makes an article influential? Predicting impact in social and personality psychology

    Nick Haslam;Lauren Ban;Leah Mary Kaufmann;Stephen Loughnan

  • When Closing the Human-Animal Divide Expands Moral Concern: The Importance of Framing

    Brock Bastian;Kimberly Costello;Steve Loughnan;Gordon Hodson

  • Human-itarian aid? Two forms of dehumanization and willingness to help after natural disasters

    Luca Andrighetto;Cristina Baldissarri;Sara Lattanzio;Steve Loughnan

  • Beastly: What Makes Animal Metaphors Offensive?

    Nick Haslam;Steve Loughnan;Pamela Sun

  • Economic Inequality Is Linked to Biased Self-Perception

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

  • Social Class and Ideologies of Inequality: How They Uphold Unequal Societies

    Rosa Rodriguez-Bailon;Boyka Antonova Bratanova;Guillermo Willis;Lucia Lopez-Rodriguez

  • Poverty, inequality, and increased consumption of high calorie food : experimental evidence for a causal link

    Boyka Antonova Bratanova;Boyka Antonova Bratanova;Steve Loughnan;Olivier Klein;Almudena Claassen

  • Advances in Psychology Research

    Meredith O'Connor;Steve Loughnan;Nick Haslam

  • Understanding the Relationship between Attribute-Based and Metaphor-Based Dehumanization:

    Steve Loughnan;Steve Loughnan;Nick Haslam;Yoshihisa Kashima

  • Dehumanization and social class: Animality in the stereotypes of “white trash,” “chavs,” and “bogans”.

    Steve Loughnan;Nick Haslam;Robbie M. Sutton;Bettina Spencer

Frequent Co-Authors

Nick Haslam
Nick Haslam University of Melbourne
Brock Bastian
Brock Bastian University of Melbourne
Jeroen Vaes
Jeroen Vaes University of Trento
Peter Kuppens
Peter Kuppens KU Leuven
Paul W. Eastwick
Paul W. Eastwick University of California, Davis
Ángel Gómez
Ángel Gómez National University of Distance Education
Michał Bilewicz
Michał Bilewicz University of Warsaw
Malte Friese
Malte Friese Saarland University
William B. Swann
William B. Swann The University of Texas at Austin
Yoshihisa Kashima
Yoshihisa Kashima University of Melbourne

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