📰 Publications

Why science is revered and rejected ↗

Robbie Sutton & Stefan Leach

Current Opinion in Psychology - 2025

Why the right resists veg(etari)anism: Ideological commitment to consuming animal products ↗

Maria Ioannidou, Georgia Harlow, Mia Patel, Stefan Leach, Gordon Hodson, & Kristof Dhont

Food Quality and Preference - 2025

Moral outrage predicts the virality of petitions for change on social media, but not the number of signatures they receive ↗

Stefan Leach, Magda Formanowicz, Jan Nikadon, & Aleksandra Cichocka 

Social Psychological and Personality Science - 2025

Revisiting the motivated denial of mind to animals used for food: Replication Registered Report of Bastian et al. (2012) ↗

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

Unpalatable truths: Commitment to eating meat is associated with strategic ignorance of food animal minds ↗

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

When smiles (and frowns) speak words: Does power impact the correspondence between self‐reported affect and facial expressions? ↗

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