Brock Bastian

Prescribing vegetarian or flexitarian diets leads to sustained reduction in meat intake.

Brodie C Dakin, Ann Ee Ching, Elliot Teperman, Christoph Klebl, Michoel Moshel, Brock Bastian

Journal article  |  2021  |  Appetite

Many people agree that reducing the consumption of meat has good ends (e.g., for animal welfare, the environment, and human health..

Beyond Aesthetic Judgment: Beauty Increases Moral Standing Through Perceptions of Purity

Christoph Klebl, Yin Luo, Brock Bastian

Journal article  |  2021  |  PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN

Researchers have tended to focus on mind perception as integral to judgments of moral standing, yet a smaller body of evidence sug..

Morally excused but socially excluded: Denying agency through the defense of mental impairment

Melissa de Vel-Palumbo, Chelsea Schein, Rose Ferguson, Melissa Xue-Ling Chang, Brock Bastian

Journal article  |  2021  |  PLOS ONE

Defendants can deny they have agency, and thus responsibility, for a crime by using a defense of mental impairment. We argue that ..

Beauty of the Beast: Beauty as an important dimension in the moral standing of animals

Christoph Klebl, Yin Luo, Nicholas Poh-Jie Tan, Judah Teo Ping Ern, Brock Bastian

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Conservationists have sought to identify avenues through which to gain public support for efforts to halt the accelerating decline..

Tethered humanity: Humanizing self and others in response to interpersonal harm

Jeroen Vaes, Brock Bastian

Journal article  |  2021  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

We propose an integrative framework in which the self-image of perpetrators and victims in interpersonal conflictual relationships..

International optimism: Correlates and consequences of dispositional optimism across 61 countries.

Erica Baranski, Kate Sweeny, Gwendolyn Gardiner, undefined Members of the International Situations Project, David C Funder

Journal article  |  2021  |  J Pers

OBJECTIVE: The current exploratory study sought to examine dispositional optimism, or the general expectation for positive outcome..

When the pursuit of happiness backfires: The role of negative emotion valuation

Ashley Humphrey, Rebecca Szoka, Brock Bastian

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Recent research has uncovered a downside to the pursuit of happiness; placing a high value on happiness can ironically lead to low..

The Relation Between Positive and Negative Affect Becomes More Negative in Response to Personally Relevant Events

Egon Dejonckheere, Merijn Mestdagh, Stijn Verdonck, Ginette Lafit, Eva Ceulemans, Brock Bastian, Elise K Kalokerinos

Journal article  |  2021  |  EMOTION

Can we experience positive (PA) and negative affect (NA) separately (i.e., affective independence), or do these emotional states r..

REPLY TO WENZEL AND KUBIAK: Neuroticism is best defined bymean levels of negative emotion, not emotional variability

Elise K Kalokerinos, Sean C Murphy, Peter Koval, Merijn Mestdagh, Brock Bastian, Peter Kuppens

Journal article  |  2020  |  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Situational experience around the world: A replication and extension in 62 countries.

Daniel I Lee, Gwendolyn Gardiner, Erica Baranski, undefined Members of the International Situations Project, David C Funder

Journal article  |  2020  |  J Pers

OBJECTIVE: The current study seeks to replicate and extend principal findings reported in The World at 7:00, a project that examin..