Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Attributing humanity to other people (dehumanization, objectification) and to animals (anthropomorphism). Deciding who is worthy of moral concern and when. Examining the psychological consequences of economic inequality.
Teaching
Courses Lectured
Curr. Direct. in Social Psych.
Advanced Social Psych.
Social Psych. of Groups.
Personality and Social Psych.
Groups in Action.
Biological Psych. (Statistics)
Intro. to Biological & Cognitive Psych.
Courses Tutored/Seminar Leader
Advanced Statistics.
Advanced Social Psych.
Personality & Social Psych.
Quantitative Methods for Psych.
Intro. to Experimental Psych.
Media
Tiere lieben, Tiere essen (Love animals, eat animals), Psychologie Heute (2014).
Don’t Feel Guilty about Eating Animals, Time Magazine, (2014).
The Meat Paradox: How carnivores think about dinner, Huffington Post, (2014).
Beastly Appetites: The animals we love too much to eat, The New Yorker, (2013).
The horse meat scandals reveal we are more psychologically screwed up than we realized about eating animals, (2013), Huffington Post, US.
Carnivores make low estimates of animal minds, (2012), Scientific American, US.
Administrative Roles
2021: PPLS Director of Undergraduate Studies
2012: Founding member of the Melbourne Moral Psychology Laboratory (MMPL).
2010-2011: Post-doctoral representative, Psychology, University of Kent.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Towards an Understanding of Intergroup Dehumanization, University of Melbourne
Award Date: 1 Jan 2009
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Far-right movements in the Western world: How media exposure relates to normative beliefs and attitudes toward the far-right
Selvanathan, H. P., Leidner, B., Syropoulos, S., Louis, W., Adelman, L., Baka, A., Bauer, C., Blikmans, M., Becker, M., Beran, E., Bilewicz, M., Chekroun, P., Greitemeyer, T., Hannover, B., Jasinskaja-Lahti, I., Kardos, P., Li, M., Lindholm, T., Loughnan, S. & Mros, T. & 7 others, , 12 Feb 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mental health in the veterinary profession
Ellis, A., Stanton, S. C. E., Loughnan, S. & Hawkins, R. D., 23 Nov 2025, In: Veterinary Record. 195, 10, p. 424 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Short survey › peer-review
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Heroes and villains: Message frames, gender, and meat attachment as predictors of meat reduction intentions
Couture, A. & Loughnan, S., Sept 2024, In: Anthrozoös. 37, 5, p. 905–924Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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High economic inequality is linked to greater moralization
Kirkland, K., Van Lange, P. A. M., Gorenz, D., Blake, K., Amiot, C. E., Ausmees, L., Baguma, P., Barry, O., Becker, M., Bilewicz, M., Boonyasiriwat, W., Booth, R. W., Castelain, T., Costantini, G., Dimdins, G., Espinosa, A., Finchilescu, G., Fischer, R., Friese, M. & Gómez, Á. & 25 others, , Jul 2024, In: PNAS Nexus. 3, 7, pgae221.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The associations between human-companion animal relationship duration, companion animal life stage, and relationship quality
Ellis, A., Loughnan, S., Hawkins, R. D. & Stanton, S. C. E., 29 May 2024, In: Animals. 14, 11, p. 1-14 14 p., 1606.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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Pets and Mental Health in Adults and Children
Loughnan, S. (Assessor) & Hawkins, R. (Assessor)
4 Oct 2023Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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PHAIR Society Conference
Ellis, A. (Presenter), Loughnan, S. (Contributor), Stanton, S. (Contributor) & Hawkins, R. (Contributor)
2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Panel discussion: Morality and "the other"
Loughnan, S. (Speaker) & Stanton, S. (Contributor)
2023Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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10 years of the meat paradox: What we do (and do not) know about eating animals
Loughnan, S. (Keynote speaker) & Stanton, S. (Contributor)
2023Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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The link between the nature of the human-pet relationship and well-being outcomes in pet owners
Ellis, A. (Speaker), Loughnan, S. (Contributor), Stanton, S. (Contributor) & Hawkins, R. (Contributor)
2023Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Prizes
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Philips Leverhulme Prize
Loughnan, S. (Recipient), 1 Mar 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Projects
- 6 Finished
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PPLS Small Project Grant: Development and Validation of Measures of Pet Self-Expansion and Perceived Pet Responsiveness
Stanton, S. (Principal Investigator) & Loughnan, S. (Co-investigator)
1/01/22 → 31/07/22
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
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PPLS Small Projects Grant: Developing theory and methods for the study of Human-Animal Relations at Edinburgh (HARE)
Loughnan, S. (Principal Investigator) & Stanton, S. (Co-investigator)
1/01/21 → 31/07/21
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
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Meet your meat: Using Virtual and real contact with animals to reduce meat consumption
Loughnan, S. (Principal Investigator)
13/02/17 → 14/09/20
Project: Research
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Datasets
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Explaining illness with evil: Pathogen prevalence fosters moral vitalism
Bastian, B. (Creator), Vauclair, C.-M. (Creator), Loughnan, S. (Creator), Bain, P. (Creator), Ashokkumar, A. (Creator), Becker, M. (Creator), Bilewicz, M. (Creator), Collier-Baker, E. (Creator), Crespo, C. (Creator), Eastwick, P. W. (Creator), Fischer, R. (Creator), Friese, M. (Creator), Gómez, Á. (Creator), Guerra, V. M. (Creator), Guevara, J. L. C. (Creator), Hanke, K. (Creator), Hooper, N. (Creator), Huang, L.-L. (Creator), Junqi, S. (Creator), Karasawa, M. (Creator), Kuppens, P. (Creator), Leknes, S. (Creator), Peker, M. (Creator), Pelay, C. (Creator), Pina, A. (Creator), Sachkova, M. (Creator), Saguy, T. (Creator), Silfver-Kuhalampi, M. (Creator), Sortheix, F. (Creator), Tong, J. (Creator), Yeung, V.W.-L. (Creator), Duffy, J. (Creator) & Swann, W. B. (Creator), Dryad, 18 Oct 2019
Dataset
Press/Media
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Dr Steve Loughnan investigates meat-eating habits
14/02/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Dr Steve Loughnan examines the psychology of meat-eating by humans
1/03/12
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Dr Steve Loughnan examines our attitudes to meat-eating in the wake of the horse meat scandal
20/02/13
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Dr Steve Loughnan examines how humans justify the eating of meat to themselves
14/04/14
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Stephen Loughnan considers if economic recession leads to humans increasing calorie intake
19/11/14
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research