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List of works by Brock Bastian

Beliefs about personality change and continuity

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

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

scientific article published on 7 April 2011

Can the inherence heuristic explain vitalistic reasoning?

scientific article published in October 2014

Cleansing the soul by hurting the flesh: the guilt-reducing effect of pain

scientific article

Comparisons of Daily Behavior Across 21 Countries

article by Erica N. Baranski et al published 24 January 2017 in Social Psychological and Personality Science

Contact, evaluation and social distance: Differentiating majority and minority effects

Cyber-dehumanization: Violent video game play diminishes our humanity

March 2012 scholarly article in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Detecting transient emotional responses with improved self-report measures and instructions

scientific article published on 15 August 2016

Don't mind meat? The denial of mind to animals used for human consumption

scientific article

Embracing humanity in the face of death: why do existential concerns moderate ingroup humanization?

scientific article

Essentialist beliefs about personality and their implications

scientific article published in December 2004

Essentialist beliefs predict automatic motor-responses to social categories

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Excluded from humanity: The dehumanizing effects of social ostracism

Experiencing Dehumanization: Cognitive and Emotional Effects of Everyday Dehumanization

Explaining illness with evil: pathogen prevalence fosters moral vitalism

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Feeling bad about being sad: the role of social expectancies in amplifying negative mood.

scientific article

Fluid movement and fluid social cognition: bodily movement influences essentialist thought

scientific article published on 23 October 2013

Folk theory of social change

Gustatory pleasure and pain. The offset of acute physical pain enhances responsiveness to taste

scientific article published in January 2014

High estradiol and low progesterone are associated with high assertiveness in women.

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

How does pain affect eating and food pleasure?

scientific article published on 10 January 2014

Humanness and Dehumanization

Immigration from the perspective of hosts and immigrants: Roles of psychological essentialism and social identity

Increased Pain Communication following Multiple Group Memberships Salience Leads to a Relative Reduction in Pain-Related Brain Activity.

scientific article

Intergroup contact in context: The mediating role of social norms and group-based perceptions on the contact–prejudice link

Is valuing positive emotion associated with life satisfaction?

scientific article published on 21 April 2014

Losing our humanity: the self-dehumanizing consequences of social ostracism

scientific article

Moral Vitalism: Seeing Good and Evil as Real, Agentic Forces.

scientific article published on 18 June 2015

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

scientific article

More human than you: attributing humanness to self and others

scientific article published in December 2005

Normative Influences on Secondary Disturbance: The Role of Social Expectancies

Not “just words”: Exposure to homophobic epithets leads to dehumanizing and physical distancing from gay men

article published in 2015

Our flaws are more human than yours: ingroup bias in humanizing negative characteristics

scientific article

Pain as social glue: shared pain increases cooperation

scientific article

People and Companion Animals: It Takes Two to Tango

article published in 2016

Perceived social pressure not to experience negative emotion is linked to selective attention for negative information

scientific article

Perceiving social pressure not to feel negative predicts depressive symptoms in daily life

scientific article published on 12 May 2017

Perceptions of low agency and high sexual openness mediate the relationship between sexualization and sexual aggression

scientific article published on 5 February 2016

Physical Pain and Guilty Pleasures

Psychological Essentialism, Implicit Theories, and Intergroup Relations

Psychological essentialism and attention allocation: preferences for stereotype-consistent versus stereotype-inconsistent information

scientific article

Psychological essentialism and stereotype endorsement

article published in 2006

Revisiting the Measurement of Anomie.

scientific article

Sad and Alone

Solidarity with Animals: Assessing a Relevant Dimension of Social Identification with Animals

scientific article

Teaching psychology in Australia: Does class attendance matter for performance?

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The Benefits of Pain

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

scientific article

The Fusion-Secure Base Hypothesis

scientific article published in 2022

The Positive Consequences of Pain: A Biopsychosocial Approach

scientific article published on 12 April 2014

The Psychology of Eating Animals

The World at 7:00: Comparing the Experience of Situations Across 20 Countries

scientific article published on 21 March 2015

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

scientific article

The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences

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The interaction of economic rewards and moral convictions in predicting attitudes toward resource use.

scientific article published on 12 August 2015

The relation between positive and negative affect becomes more negative in response to personally relevant events

scientific article published on 07 November 2019

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

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The roles of dehumanization and moral outrage in retributive justice

scientific article

Toward a psychology of human-animal relations

scientific article

Towards a Psychological Analysis of Anomie

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

scientific article

When Closing the Human–Animal Divide Expands Moral Concern

When group membership gets personal: a theory of identity fusion

scientific article

“I have paid my dues”: When physical pain reduces interpersonal justice motivations

article by Lisanne van Bunderen & Brock Bastian published 14 March 2014 in Motivation and Emotion