Stefan Leach
Lecturer in PsychologyUniversity of SouthamptonEmbedded Files
About
About
I am a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Southampton, UK. My expertise is in social and moral psychology, as well as big data and natural language processing.
Interests
Political identity & engagement
Social media
Big data & natural language processing
Moral circles
Education
🎓 PhD Social Psychology
University of Kent
🎓 MSc Research Methods
University of Kent
🎓 BSc Psychology
University of York
📚 Research
📚 Research
I take a broad and interdisciplinary approach to my work, using experiments and large-scale computational methods to understand a range of pressing societal issues, recently:
My work can be found in peer-reviewed journals such as: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Cognition, British Journal of Psychology, and Social Personality and Psychological Science.
📰 Publications
📰 Publications
Stefan Leach, Magda Formanowicz, Jan Nikadon, & Aleksandra Cichocka
Social Psychological and Personality Science - 2025
Tyler Jacobs, Meiying Wang, Stefan Leach, ... & Gilad Feldman
International Review of Social Psychology - 2024
The misandry myth: An inaccurate stereotype about feminists’ attitudes toward men
Aife Hopkins-Doyle, Aino Petterson, Stefan Leach, ... & Robbie Sutton
Psychology of Women Quarterly - 2024
Word embeddings reveal growing moral concern for people, animals and the environment
Stefan Leach, Andrew Kitchin, & Robbie Sutton
British Journal of Social Psychology - 2023
Non-speciesist language communicates moral commitments to animals and evokes do-gooder derogation
Stefan Leach & Kristof Dhont
Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations (PHAIR) - 2023
Are we smart enough to remember how smart animals are?
Stefan Leach, Robbie Sutton, Kristof Dhont, Karen Douglas, & Zara Bergstrom
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General - 2023
Changing minds about minds: Evidence that people are too sceptical about animal sentience
Stefan Leach, Robbie Sutton, Kristof Dhont, Karen Douglas, & Zara Bergstrom
Cognition - 2023
Speciesism in everyday language
Stefan Leach, Andrew Kitchin, Robbie Sutton, & Kristof Dhont
British Journal of Social Psychology - 2023
Stefan Leach, Jared Piazza, Steve Loughnan, Robbie Sutton, Ioanna Kapantai, Kristof Dhont, & Karen Douglas
Appetite - 2022
The ‘me’ in meat: Does affirming the self make eating animals seem more morally wrong?
Stefan Leach, Robbie Sutton, Karen Douglas, & Kristof Dhont
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - 2021
When is it wrong to eat animals? The relevance of different animal traits and behaviours
Stefan Leach, Robbie Sutton, Kristof Dhont, & Karen Douglas
European Journal of Social Psychology - 2021
Taking charge of one’s feelings: Power and affect regulation
Stefan Leach & Mario Weick
Personality and Individual Differences - 2020
Stefan Leach & Mario Weick
British Journal of Psychology - 2020
From grumpy to cheerful (and back): How power impacts mood in and across different contexts
Stefan Leach & Mario Weick
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - 2018
Can people judge the veracity of their intuitions?
Stefan Leach & Mario Weick
Social Psychological and Personality Science - 2018
Does influence beget autonomy? Clarifying the relationship between social and personal power
Stefan Leach, Mario Weick, & Joris Lammers
Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology - 2017
👨🏫 Teaching
👨🏫 Teaching
I have taught a range of modules over the years, covering advanced statistics, attitudes and social cognition, business psychology, and natural language processing.
Students working with me as their supervisor are encouraged to make use of the resource below, which I have put together to help with their dissertation projects.
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