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    Morality and Humanness
    Haslam, N ; Bastian, B ; Loughnan, S ; Levine, JM ; Hogg, MA (Sage, 2010)
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    Psychological essentialism, implicit theories, and intergroup relations
    Haslam, N ; Bastian, B ; Bain, P ; Kashima, Y (SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2006-01)
    Research on implicit person theories shows that beliefs about the malleability of human attributes have important implications for social cognition, interpersonal behavior, and intergroup relations. We argue that these implications can be understood within the framework of psychological essentialism, which extends work on implicit theories in promising directions. We review evidence that immutability beliefs covary with a broader set of essentialist beliefs, and that these essentialist beliefs are associated with stereotyping and prejudice. We then present recent studies indicating that associations between implicit person theories and stereotyping may be explained in terms of essentialist beliefs, implying a significant role for these beliefs in the psychology of group perception. Finally, we propose ways in which research and theory on essentialist beliefs might clarify and advance research on implicit person theories.
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    Psychological essentialism and stereotype endorsement
    Bastian, B ; Haslam, N (ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 2006-03)
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    Folk theory of social change
    Kashima, Y ; Bain, P ; Haslam, N ; Peters, K ; Laham, S ; Whelan, J ; Bastian, B ; Loughnan, S ; Kaufmann, L ; FERNANDO, J (Wiley, 2009)
    People have a folk theory of social change (FTSC). A typical Western FTSC stipulates that as a society becomes more industrialized, it undergoes a natural course of social change, in which a communal society marked by communal relationships becomes a qualitatively different, agentic society where market-based exchange relationships prevail. People use this folk theory to predict a society's future and estimate its past, to understand contemporary cross-cultural differences, and to make decisions about social policies. Nonetheless, the FTSC is not particularly consistent with the existing cross-cultural research on industrialization and cultural differences, and needs to be examined carefully.
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    Intergroup contact in context: The mediating role of social norms and group-based perceptions on the contact-prejudice link
    Ata, A ; Bastian, B ; Lusher, D (PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2009-11)
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    The role of meat consumption in the denial of moral status and mind to meat animals
    Loughnan, S ; Haslam, N ; Bastian, B (ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2010-08)
    People enjoy eating meat but disapprove of harming animals. One resolution to this conflict is to withdraw moral concern from animals and deny their capacity to suffer. To test this possibility, we asked participants to eat dried beef or dried nuts and then indicate their moral concern for animals and judge the moral status and mental states of a cow. Eating meat reduced the perceived obligation to show moral concern for animals in general and the perceived moral status of the cow. It also indirectly reduced the ascription of mental states necessary to experience suffering. People may escape the conflict between enjoying meat and concern for animal welfare by perceiving animals as unworthy and unfeeling.