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Dr Brock Bastian
BA, Post Grad Dip Psych, PhD
Research Fellow
Contact details:
Brock Bastian is a research fellow who completed his PhD in social psychology at the University of Melbourne . His research has focused on the importance of essentialist beliefs about human attributes for social categorization, stereotyping and prejudice.
Current Research Interests:
• Dehumanization as related to everyday interpersonal processes and beliefs.
• Psychological essentialism and social structure.
• Inter-group dominance as related to psychological essentialism.
• Immigration, Asylum seekers and Muslim, non-Muslim relations within Australia .
Professional Associations, Memberships & Awards:
Associations
- Society of Personality and Social Psychology
- Australian Psychological Society
- Registered with Victorian Psychologist Registration Board
Publications:
PhD Thesis
Bastian, B. (2007). Essentialising Entity Theories: Placing implicit person theories within the framework of psychological essentialism. PhD thesis, University of Melbourne Australia
Refereed Journal Articles
Bastian, B., & Haslam, N. (in press ). Psychological essentialism and social identification:
Immigration from two perspectives . Asian Journal of Social Psychology.
Bastian, B., & Haslam, N. ( in press ). Psychological essentialism and attention allocation.
Journal of Social Psychology.
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 stereotype 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 beliefabout 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.
Manuscripts in Preparation
Haslam, N., Bastian, B., Fox, C., Whelan, J., & Boldero, J. Value-trait compatibility and
psychological wellbeing.
Reports
Conley Tyler, M., Bretherton, D., Bornstein, J., Bastian, B (2004). Review of the
DSCV Magistrates' Court mediation diversion (Intervention Order) project, prepared for the Department of Justice, Victoria (unpublished report).
Conley Tyler, M., Bretherton, D., Bastian, B (2003). Research into online alternative dispute
resolution, needs assessment prepared for the Department of Justice, Victoria .
Presentations
Bastian, B., & Haslam, N. Psychological essentialism and social identification. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis , USA , 2007.
Bastian, B., & Haslam, N. Psychological essentialism and social identification. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists, Canberra , 2006.
Bastian, B., & Haslam, N. Psychological essentialism and stereotype endorsement . Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists, Townsville, 2005.
Haslam, N., Bain, P., Douge, L., Lee, M., & Bastian, B. More human than you: Attributing humanness to self and others . Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists, Townsville, 2005.
Bastian, B., & Rawlings, D. Painting preference and personality . Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, New York , 2000.
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