- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- PhD, University of Melbourne (2007)
Research interests
My research activites to date have largely focused on psychological essentialism and dehumanization with research spanning both the inter-group as well as the interpersonal domain. Other research interests relate to the various ways that people justify their use of animals for food, Muslims and non-Mulsim relations within Australia and factors that promote ideological conflict.
Bastian B., & Haslam, N. (in press) Excluded from humanity: The dehumanising effects of social ostracism, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Ata, A., Bastian, B., & Lusher, D. (in press). Intergroup contact in context: The mediating role of social norms and group-based perceptions on the contact-prejudice link. International Journal of Intercultural Relations.
Kashima, Y., Bain, P., Haslam, N., Peters, K., Laham, S., Whelan, J., Bastian, B. & Loughnan, S. (in press). A folk theory of social change. Asian Journal of Social Psychology.
Haslam, N., Bastian, B., & Loughnan, S. (in press). Dehumanization/infrahumanization. In J. Levine & M. Hogg (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. London: Sage.
Haslam, N., & Bastian, B. (in press). Essentialism. In J. Levine & M. Hogg (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. London: Sage.
Haslam, N., Whelan, J., & Bastian, B. (2009). Big five traits mediate associations between values and subjective well-being. Personality and Individual Differences, 46, 40-42
Bastian, B., & Haslam, N. (2008). Psychological Essentialism and Social Identification: Immigration from two perspectives. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 11, 127- 140.
Bastian, B., & Haslam, N. (2007). Psychological essentialism and attention allocation. Journal of Social Psychology, 147(5), 531-541.
Haslam, N., Bastian, B., Fox, C., & Whelan, J. (2007) Beliefs about personality change and continuity. Personality and Individual Differences, 42, 1621-1631.
Bastian, B., & Haslam, N. (2006). Psychological essentialism and stereotyping endorsement. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 228-235.
Haslam, N., Bastian, B., Bain, P., & Kashima, Y. (2006). Psychological essentialism, implicit theories, and intergroup relations. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 9, 63-76.
Haslam, N., Bain, P., Douge, L., Lee, M., & Bastian, B. (2005). More human than you: Attributing humanness to self and others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 937-950.
Haslam, N., Bastian, B., & Bissett, M. (2004). Essentialist beliefs about personality and their implications. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1661-1673.
Rawlings, D., & Bastian, B. (2002). Painting preference and personality, with particular reference to Gray's behavioural inhibition and behavioural approach systems. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 20(2), 159-175.
FORTHCOMING MANUSCIRPTS
Bastian, B., Loughnan, S., Haslam, N. (submitted). Don’t mind meet: The dementalisation of animals used for human consumption.
Bastian, B., Laham, S., Wilson, S., Haslam, N. & Koval, P. (submitted). Moral dimensions of humanness: Blaming, praising and protecting our humanity
Bastian, B., Loughnan, S., & Koval, P. (submitted). Sticking to who you know: Psychological essentialism and automatic behavioral preference for the ingroup.
Bastian B., & Haslam, N. (in preparation). Experiencing Dehumanization: Cognitive, emotional, behavioral and relational effects of everyday dehumanization.
Bastian, B., Ata, A., & Lusher, D. (in preparation). Contact, evaluation and social distance: Differentiating majority and minority effects.
Bastian, B., & Koval, P. (in preparation). Essentialising belief-based differences: The social structural effects of shared perceptions of Islam.
Bastian, B., & Koval, P. (in preparation). Channelling the devil: Naive theories of metaphysical forces and the importance of ideolgy.
Koval, P., Laham., S., Haslam, N., Bastian, B. (in preparation) Humanising Group Flaws.
Laham S. & Bastian B. (in preparation) The moral circle and dimensions of mind perception.
