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Universal biases in self-perception: better and more human than averageSteve Loughnan
University of Melbourne, Australia
Br J Soc Psychol 49:627-36. 2010..Self-humanizing was not specific to Western or English-speaking cultures and its magnitude was less cross-culturally variable than self-enhancement. Implications of these findings for research on the self and its biases are discussed...
The role of meat consumption in the denial of moral status and mind to meat animalsSteve Loughnan
University of Kent, United Kingdom
Appetite 55:156-9. 2010..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...
Economic inequality is linked to biased self-perceptionSteve Loughnan
University of Melbourne
Psychol Sci 22:1254-8. 2011..These results indicate that macrosocial differences in the distribution of economic goods are linked to microsocial processes of perceiving the self...
