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Brock Bastian

Professor In Psychology
Melbourne School Of Psychological Sciences
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My research focuses on pain, happiness, and morality www.brockbastian.com

Projects

Displaying the 8 most recent projects by Brock Bastian.

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BUILDING TRUST AND SUSTAINABILITY BY PROMOTING A MORAL FRAME TO NATURE

2020 - 2023
Active
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Promoting moral concern for wildlife and ecosystems

2019 - 2021
Active
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How do we reduce meat consumption? Understanding the motivational dynamics of behaviour change in the moral domain

2017 - 2019
Completed
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Toward a new psychology of well-being

2017 - 2017
Completed
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MORAL FRONTIERS: WHEN THE NEEDS OF HUMANS AND NONHUMANS COLLIDE.

Decision making about resources is not simply based on human needs alone. Issues relating to animal rights, biodiversity, and environmental ..

2016 - 2017
Completed
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A SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF AFFECTIVE DISTURBANCE

We are in the midst of a depression and anxiety epidemic that cannot be explained by focusing on individual experiences alone. We desperatel..

2014 - 2017
Completed
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HOW PAIN SHAPES OUR SOCIAL WORLD

Pain is an important source of human experience. Traditionally it has been defined by its social and psychological costs and treated as a pr..

2014 - 2016
Completed
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Psychological Essentialism, Social Categorization and Social Structure

2008 - 2008
Completed

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Project Types

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Research Grant

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Internal Research Grant

Additional Information

Grants and Fellowships:
2014 – 2017 – ARC Future Fellowship – Brock Bastian – Moral Frontiers: When the needs of humans and non-humans collide – $664,527

2014 – 2016 – ARC Discovery Project – Brock Bastian & Peter Kuppens – A social psychology of affective disturbance – $325,000

2014 – 2016 – ARC Discovery Project – Brock Bastian & Jolanda Jetten – How pain shapes our social world – $277,115

2014 – 2016 – UQ Research Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences – Brock Bastian – A social psychological perspective on physical pain and depression – $300,000

2013 - UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award – Brock Bastian – “What we gain from
Pain”: Exploring the benefits of physical pain – $72,000

2011-2013 - ARC Discovery Project – Brock Bastian (Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship), Paul Bain, William B Swann – “Moral Vitalism: Understanding the foundations of righteous violence within everyday secular thought – $300,000

2010 - Early Career Researcher Grant – University of Queensland – Brock Bastian - “Channelling the Devil: Naïve theories of metaphysical forces and the importance of ideology” –

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2009-2011 - UQ Postdoctoral Fellowship – University of Queensland – Brock Bastian – “Deep divides: How beliefs about the nature of group differences maintain social divisions and prevent integration” – $270,000

2008 - Early Career Researcher Grant – University of Melbourne – Brock Bastian – “Psychological essentialism, social categorization and social structure” –
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2008 - Knowledge Transfer Grant – Melbourne University – Nick Haslam, Brock Bastian & Dean Lusher – “Translating asylum seeker research into policy chance
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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Brock Bastian.

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Measuring psychological distress among Australians using an online survey

Jack W Klein, Garrett Tyler-Parker, Brock Bastian

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian Journal of Psychology

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Ugliness Judgments Alert us to Cues of Pathogen Presence

Christoph Klebl, Katharine H Greenaway, Joshua Ju-suk Rhee, Brock Bastian

Journal article  |  2020  |  Social Psychological and Personality Science

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Measurement invariance of the moral vitalism scale across 28 cultural groups

Maksim Rudnev, Christin-Melanie Vauclair, Samira Aminihajibashi, Maja Becker, Michal Bilewicz, Jose Luis Castellanos Guevara, Emma Collier-Baker, Carla Crespo, Paul Eastwick, Ronald Fischer, Malte Friese, Angel Gomez, Valeschka Guerra, Katja Hanke, Nic Hooper, Li-li Huang, Minoru Karasawa, Peter Kuppens, Steve Loughnan, Mujde Peker, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLoS One

Moral vitalism refers to a tendency to view good and evil as actual forces that can influence people and events. The Moral Vitalis..

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Social Identification With Animals: Unpacking Our Psychological Connection With Other Animals

Catherine E Amiot, Ksenia Sukhanova, Brock Bastian

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Neuroticism may not reflect emotional variability

Elise K Kalokerinos, Sean C Murphy, Peter Koval, Natasha H Bailen, Geert Crombez, Tom Hollenstein, John Gleeson, Renee J Thompson, Dimitri ML Van Ryckeghem, Peter Kuppens, Brock Bastian

Journal article  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Perceiving Social Pressure not to Feel Negative is Linked to a More Negative Self-concept

Egon Dejonckheere, Brock Bastian

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Happiness Studies

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The evolutionary function of what people find meaningful

B Bastian, B Dakin, S Murphy

Journal article  |  2020  |  Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture

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PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN HUMAN-ANIMAL INTERACTIONS How Do Humans Cognize About Animals?

Catherine E Amiot, Brock Bastian

Book Chapter  |  2020

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Pain Offset Reduces Rumination in Response to Evoked Anger and Sadness

Cindy Harmon-Jones, Emily Hinton, Judy Tien, Elizabeth Summerell, Brock Bastian

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Four studies examined whether pain offset reduces rumination in response to anger or sadness. Past research has demonstrated that,..

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The what, how, and why of moralization: A review of current definitions, methods, and evidence in moralization research

Joshua J Rhee, Chelsea Schein, Brock Bastian

Journal article  |  2019  |  Social and Personality Psychology Compass

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Psychology
Expanding Knowledge
Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)
Religion and Ethics
Other Cultural Understanding
Non-Oriented Research
Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Sociology
Other Studies in Human Society
Public Health and Health Services

News

Displaying the 8 most recent news articles by Brock Bastian.

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The ugly truth

Brock Bastian, Katie Greenaway

August 19, 2020
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How COVID-19 could inspire us to a better future

Brock Bastian

June 1, 2020
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Nanette, self-deprecation and when not to use it

Brock Bastian

August 24, 2018
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Why we should be slow to point the finger at bankers

Brock Bastian

July 8, 2018
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So many in the West are depressed because they're expected not to be

Brock Bastian

August 1, 2017
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(Don’t) always look on the bright side of life

Brock Bastian

June 7, 2017
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Wary of human-animal hybrids? It's probably just your own moral superiority

Brock Bastian

February 19, 2017
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How do we weigh the moral value of human lives against animal ones?

Brock Bastian

June 8, 2016

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2016

Dan Wegner Theoretical Innovation Award

Society for Personality and Social Psychology
2012

Early Career Researcher Award

Socity of Australasian Social Psychologists
2012

Foundation Research Excellence Award

University of Queensland
2011

Early Career Researcher Award

Australian Psychological Society

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Positions

Professor In Psychology

Melbourne School Of Psychological Sciences

Education

Education

Psychology

University of Melbourne

Post Grad Diploma

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts

Monash University

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