Research interests

My research centres on the use of metaphors and how people think about social targets (other people, social groups). In particular, I have focused on viewing others as animals, machines, and objects. I am also interested in judgements about mental states and moral status.

Publications

In press

Bratanova, B., Loughnan, S., & Gatersleben, B. (in press) The Moral Circle as a Common Motivational Cause of Cross-situational Pro-environmentalism. European Journal of Social Psychology.

Bastian, B., Costello, K., Loughnan, S., & Hodson, G. (in press). When closing the human-animal divide expands moral concern: The importance of framing. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Bastian, B., Loughnan, S., Haslam, N., & Radke, H. (in press). Don’t mind meat? The denial of mind to animals used for human consumption. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 

Loughnan, S., Kuppens, P., Allik, J., Balazs, K., de Lemus, S., Dumont, K., Gargurevich, R., Hidegkuti, I., Leidner, B., Matos, L., Park., J., Realo, A., Shi, J., Sojo, V., Tong, Y-Y., Vaes, J., Verduyn, P., Yeung, V., & Haslam., N (in press). Economic inequality is linked to biased self-perception. Psychological Science.

Bratanova, B., Loughnan, S., & Bastian, B. (in press). Categorization as food reduces moral concern for animals. Appetite.

Haslam, N., Loughnan, S., & Sun, P (in press). What makes animal metaphors offensive? Journal of Language and Social Psychology.

Bastian, B., Loughnan, S., & Koval, P. (in press). Essentialist beliefs predict category-based automatic motor-behavior. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. 

Haslam, N., & Loughnan, S. (in press). Dehumanization. Dehumanization and prejudice. In J. Dixon & M. Levine (Eds.), Beyond the prejudice problematic. London: Psychology Press.

Haslam, N., Bastian, B., Laham, S., & Loughnan, S. (in press). Humanness, dehumanization, and moral psychology. In M. Mikulincer & P. Shaver (Eds.), The psychology of good and evil. Washington, DC: APA Press.

Haslam, N., Bain, P., Bastian, B., & Loughnan, S. (in press). A perspective on dehumanization. In M. Drogosz & M. Bilewicz (Eds.), Beyond stereotypes: Essentialism, entitativity, and dehumanization. Warsaw: PWN.

2010

Loughnan, S.,Haslam, N., Murnane, T., Vaes, J., Reynolds, C., & Suitner, C. (2010). Objectification leads to depersonalization: The denial of mind and moral concern to objectified others. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 709-717.

Loughnan, S.,Leidner, B., Doron, G., Haslam, N., Kashima, Y., Tong, J., & Yeung, V. (2010). Universal biases in self-perception: Better and more human than average. British Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 627-636.

Loughnan, S., Haslam, N., & Bastian, B. (2010). The role of meat consumption in the denial of moral status and mind to meat animals. Appetite, 55, 156-159. 

Saminaden, A., Loughnan, S., & Haslam, N. (2010). Afterimages of Savages: Implicit and explicit dehumanization of traditional peoples. British Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 91-105.

Haslam, N., Bastian, B., & Loughnan, S. (2010). Dehumanization/infrahumanization. In J. M. Levine & M. A. Hogg (Eds.) Encyclopedia of group processes & intergroup relations (pp. 188-190). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

2009

Loughnan, S., Haslam, N., & Kashima, Y. (2009). Understanding the relationship between attribute- and metaphor-based dehumanization. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations,12, 747-762. 

Beatson, R., Loughnan, S., & Halloran, M. (2009) Attitudes toward animals: The effect of priming thoughts of human-animal similarities and mortality salience on the evaluation of companion animals. Society & Animals, 17, 53-71.

Kashima, Y., Bain, P., Haslam, N., Peters, K., Laham, S., Whelan, J., Bastian, B.,Loughnan, S., Kaufmann, L., & Fernando, J. (2009) A folk theory of social change, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 12, 227-246.

Haslam, N., Bastian, B., & Loughnan, S. (2009). Dehumanization/ infrahumanization. In J. Levine & M. Hogg (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. London: Sage.

2008

Haslam, N., Loughnan, S., Kashima, Y., & Bain, P. (2008). Attributing less humanness to others. European Review of Social Psychology, 19, 55-85.

Haslam, N., Kashima, Y., Loughnan, S., Shi, J., & Suitner, C. (2008). Subhuman, Inhuman, Superhuman: Contrasting humans with nonhumans in three cultures. Social Cognition, 26 (2), 248-258.

Haslam, N., Ban, L., Kaufmann, L., Loughnan, S., Peters, K., Whelan, J., & Wilson, S. (2008). What makes an article influential? Predicting impact in social and personality psychology. Scientometrics, 76 (1), 169-185. 

Haslam, N., & Loughnan, S. (2008). The attribution of aberrant emotionality to others. In L. Charland & P. Zachar (Eds.), Fact and Value in Emotion (Vol. 4, pp. 139-157). Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing.

O’Conner, M., Loughnan, S., & Haslam, N. (2008). The self is implicitly seen as more human than others. In A. Columbus (Ed.), Advances in Psychology Research (Vol. 53, pp 171-184). Nova Science Publishers.

2007

Loughnan, S., & Haslam, N. (2007). Animals and androids: Implicit associations between social categories and non-humans. Psychological Science, 18 (2), 116-121.

Haslam, N., Loughnan, S., Reynolds, C., & Wilson, S. (2007). Dehumanisation: A new perspective. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 1 (1), 498-516.