Rate My Professor Brock Bastian

Bastian has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Key publications include 'When group membership gets personal: a theory of identity fusion' (Psychological Review, 2012), 'Psychological essentialism and stereotype endorsement' (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2006), 'More human than you: attributing humanness to self and others' (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2005), 'The role of meat consumption in the denial of moral status and mind to meat animals' (Appetite, 2010), 'Don’t mind meat? The denial of mind to animals used for human consumption' (Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2012), and 'Toward a psychology of human–animal relations' (Psychological Bulletin, 2015). He published the book The Other Side of Happiness in 2018. Bastian has received the Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize, Australian Psychological Society early career researcher award, and Society of Australasian Social Psychologists early career researcher award. His work has secured over $2 million in research funding and appeared in outlets such as The Economist, The New Yorker, TIME, New Scientist, Scientific American, and Harvard Business Review. He delivers public lectures including a TEDxStKilda talk 'Why We Need Pain to Feel Happiness' and contributes to The Conversation.