A5017938670- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
- Media Influence and Health
The University of Melbourne
2009-2024
Australian Psychological Society
2019-2024
Hologic (Germany)
2022
UNSW Sydney
2014-2017
University of Oxford
2017
The University of Queensland
2009-2015
University of Michigan
1976-1982
Identity fusion is a relatively unexplored form of alignment with groups that entails visceral feeling oneness the group. This associated unusually porous, highly permeable borders between personal and social self. These porous encourage people to channel their agency into group behavior, raising possibility self will combine synergistically motivate pro-group behavior. Furthermore, strong as well identities possessed by fused persons cause them recognize other members not merely but also...
People typically evaluate their in-groups more favorably than out-groups and themselves others. Research on infrahumanization also suggests a preferential attribution of the "human essence" to in-groups, independent in-group favoritism. The authors propose corresponding phenomenon in interpersonal comparisons: attribute greater humanness others, self-enhancement. Study 1 pilot study demonstrated 2 distinct understandings humanness--traits representing human nature those that are uniquely...
Many people like eating meat, but most are reluctant to harm things that have minds. The current three studies show this dissonance motivates deny minds animals. Study 1 demonstrates animals considered appropriate for human consumption ascribed diminished mental capacities. 2 shows meat eaters motivated food when they reminded of the link between and animal suffering. Finally, 3 provides direct support our hypothesis, showing expectations regarding immediate increase mind denial. Moreover,...
Several discrete emotions have broad theoretical and empirical importance, as shown by converging evidence from diverse areas of psychology, including facial displays, developmental behaviors, neuroscience. However, the measurement these states has not progressed along with theory, such that when researchers measure subjectively experienced emotions, they commonly rely on scales assessing dimensions affect (positivity negativity), rather than emotions. The current manuscript presents four...
A majority of people the world over eat meat, yet many these same experience discomfort when meat on their plate is linked to death animals. We draw this common form moral conflict-the meat-paradox-to develop insights into ways in which morally troublesome behaviors vanish commonplace and every day. Drawing a motivational analysis, we show how societies may be shaped by attempts resolve dissonance, turn protecting citizens from associated with own conflicts. To achieve this, build links...
We sought to identify the mechanisms that cause strongly fused individuals (those who have a powerful, visceral feeling of oneness with group) make extreme sacrifices for their group. A large multinational study revealed widespread tendency endorse making country. Nevertheless, when asked which several groups they were most inclined die for, participants favored relatively small groups, such as family, over and extended group, country (Study 1). To integrate these findings, we proposed...
When innocents are intentionally harmed, people motivated to see that offenders get their “just deserts”. The severity of the punishment they seek is driven by perceived magnitude harm and moral outrage. present research extended this model retributive justice incorporating role offender dehumanization. In three experiments relying on survey methodology in Australia United States, participants read about different crimes varied type (child molestation, violent, or white collar – Studies 1 2)...
The nature of our moral judgments-and the extent to which we treat others with care-depend in part on distinctions make between entities deemed worthy or unworthy consideration-our boundaries. Philosophers, historians, and social scientists have noted that people's boundaries expanded over last few centuries, but notion expansiveness has received limited empirical attention psychology. This research explores variations size individuals' using psychological construct introduces Moral...
Most people both eat animals and care about animals. Research has begun to examine the psychological processes that allow negotiate this “meat paradox.” To understand psychology of eating animals, we characteristics eaters (people), eaten (animals), (the behavior). People who value masculinity, enjoy meat do not see it as a moral issue, find dominance inequality acceptable are most likely consume Perceiving highly dissimilar humans lacking mental attributes, such capacity for pain, also...
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing stricter hygiene) endorsed policy closing bars restaurants) the early stage of COVID-19 pandemic (April-May 2020). Respondents who reported identifying...
Even though painful experiences are employed within social rituals across the world, little is known about effects of pain. We examined possibility that can promote cooperation groups. In Experiments 1 and 2, we induced pain by asking some participants to insert their hands in ice water perform leg squats. Experiment 3, eat a hot chili pepper. Participants performed these tasks small found evidence for causal link: Sharing with other people, compared no-pain control treatment, promoted...
Abstract Willingness to lay down one’s life for a group of non-kin, well documented historically and ethnographically, represents an evolutionary puzzle. Building on research in social psychology, we develop mathematical model showing how conditioning cooperation previous shared experience can allow individually costly pro-group behavior evolve. The generates series predictions that then test empirically range special sample populations (including military veterans, college...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all domains of human life, including the economic and social fabric societies. One central strategies for managing public health throughout been through persuasive messaging collective behaviour change. To help scholars better understand moral psychology behind behaviour, we present a dataset comprising 51,404 individuals from 69 countries. This was collected International Collaboration on Social & Moral Psychology project (ICSMP COVID-19). science survey...
Two studies examine implicit theories about the nature of personality characteristics, asking whether they are understood as underlying essences. Consistent with hypothesis, essentialist beliefs formed a coherent and replicable set. Personality characteristics differed systematically in extent to which were judged be discrete, biologically based, immutable, informative, consistent across situations, deeply inherent within person. In Study 1, essentialized was positively associated their...
Research into dehumanization has focused on its perpetrators and neglected the experience of targets. Across two studies we present evidence that people interactions as dehumanizing when other people's behavior undermines basic elements personhood, such identity status. These experiences have cognitive emotional consequences. Two forms experienced were apparent. In one, a failure to recognize target's equal status is associated with aversive self-awareness feelings shame guilt. other,...
Research on implicit person theories shows that beliefs about the malleability of human attributes have important implications for social cognition, interpersonal behavior, and intergroup relations. We argue these can be understood within framework psychological essentialism, which extends work in promising directions. review evidence immutability covary with a broader set essentialist beliefs, are associated stereotyping prejudice. then present recent studies indicating associations between...
The experience of positive emotion is closely linked to subjective well-being. For this reason, campaigns aimed at promoting the value have become widespread. What rarely considered are cultural implications focus on happiness. Promoting emotions as important for "the good life" not only has how individuals these emotional states, but they believe others around them also. Drawing data from over 9,000 college students across 47 countries we examined whether individuals' life satisfaction...
Being human implies a particular moral status: having value, agency, and responsibility. However, people are not seen as equally human. Across two studies, we examine the consequences that subtle variations in perceived humanness of actors or groups have for their status. Drawing on Haslam's two-dimensional model focusing three ways may be considered to status - patiency (value), responsibility demonstrate subtly denying others has implications whether they blamed, praised, worthy concern...