Kristof Dhont

The 2025 EASP Summer School at the University of Kent is kicking off in just a few days and we are SO excited to welcome 80 brilliant early-career researchers from across Europe for 10 days of collaboration, community, and cutting-edge social psychology 🙏

Find out more: blogs.kent.ac.uk/easp2025/

Keynote Speaker Announcement: In this talk, Faunalytics' Executive Director Brooke Haggerty will explore the intersection of research and animal protection.

Join us at this year's PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 (July 2-5) in Edinburgh: phair2025.co.uk

📣Keynote Speaker Announcement: Human's Reasons For and Against Animals

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📣Session Announcement! We are very excited to hear from this speaker lineup for this session on metascience and research improvement Join us at this year's PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 (July 2-5) in Edinburgh: phair2025.co.uk

📣Session Announcement! We can't wait to hear from this expert panel on the best ways to care for companion animals. Join us at this year's PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 (July 2-5) in Edinburgh: phair2025.co.uk

Join social psychologist Kristof Dhont and bestselling author and thought leader Melanie Joy for a compelling conversation at the intersection of ideology, empathy, and activism.
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Symposium announcement: Can the Right Be Right for Animals? In a time of political upheaval & growing influence of (far) right-wing populist parties, where does animal advocacy stand? Could there be unexpected allies on the political right, or should advocates brace for more conservative pushback?

📣Session Announcement: We can't wait to hear from this expert panel on ideology, philosophy, and social movements. Join us at this year's PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 (July 2-5) in Edinburgh: phair2025.co.uk

📣Session Announcement: We are looking forward to this session on AI, videogames, and the future of animal advocacy. Join us at this year's PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 (July 2-5) in Edinburgh: phair2025.co.uk

📣Session Announcement! Amazing speaker lineup for this session on Effective Animal Advocacy

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Ambivalence about social relevance? How we can reframe academic research and reaffirm our commitment to the public good Although psychologists are well positioned to address social problems, our public impact has remained relatively limited. Collectively, we might wonder why psychology, as a discipline, has not had ...

ever grow frustrated when academic colleagues suggest that studying issues with clear implications for society is not "good" research? or that studying "real world" issues means not doing "real science"?

if so, you may be interested in this article:
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📣 Speaker Announcement: We look forward to hearing about how (the lack of) moral concern for animals develops from an early age and across the lifespan”

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📣 Speaker Announcement: We look forward to hearing about the latest insights into the psychological causes and consequences of moral concern for animals.
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📣 Social Event Announcement: Come down to the Caves for food, drinks, networking and a live band that will lead a ceilidh! Join us at this year's PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 (July 2-5) in Edinburgh: phair2025.co.uk
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📣 Speaker Announcement: We look forward to hearing about human-animal relationships across cultures.
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📣 Speaker Announcement: We look forward to hearing about the psychology behind dairy consumption and reduction. Join us at this year's PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 (July 2-5) in Edinburgh: phair2025.co.uk

🚨Now available for pre-order 😃📕 ➡️ Winner of the 2024 Prix Emile Girardeau prize. This book looks at our relationships of dominance with and affection for animals.

📚In an interview with Dominic Lemken, we discuss the nuances of nudging in practice, when aiming to reduce meat consumption.

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#nudgetheory #foodchoice #vegan

📣 Workshop Announcement: How can research help animals? And how can researchers conceptualise and frame research projects to maximise their impact for animals? To find out, join us at this year's PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 (July 2-5) in Edinburgh: phair2025.co.uk

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We look forward to learning about the best ways to promote and support plant-forward diets. 🌱

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📣 Speaker Announcement: We look forward to hearing about how diets shape activism and moral expansiveness. Join us at this year's PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 (July 2-5) in Edinburgh: phair2025.co.uk

PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online

1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes.
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Revealed: Meat Industry Behind Attacks on Flagship Climate-Friendly Diet Report In January 2019, world-renowned food and nutrition experts published a groundbreaking study. The culmination of two years’ work by 37 authors, the EAT-Lancet report set out to answer the question: how...

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Revealed: Meat Industry Behind Attacks on Flagship Climate-Friendly Diet Report

A new document shows that vested interests were behind a “mud slinging” PR campaign to discredit the 2019 EAT-Lancet study.

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🧠 'People do all kinds of mental gymnastics...' @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social of @phair-society.bsky.social explains how we justify eating animals. Fascinating psychology discussion on the latest Our Hen House episode - ourhenhouse.org/ep793

Time to Register! PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference Time to Register Join us in Edinburgh for the PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference, July 2–5, 2025! There’s only ONE WEEK left to register at early bird price. Or support our work by buying a Sup…

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(PDF) Ho, Kteily, Sheehy-Skeffington, and Thomsen, Social Dominance Orientation, IN PRESS AESP PDF | On Mar 21, 2025, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington and others published Ho, Kteily, Sheehy-Skeffington, and Thomsen, Social Dominance Orientation, IN PRESS AESP | Find, read and cite all the research ...

Ho et al. (2025) review three decades of work on social dominance orientation (SDO), which represents "individual differences in the preference for group-based hierarchy and inequality."

BSky authors: @nourkteily.bsky.social, @jsskeffington.bsky.social, @lottethomsendk.bsky.social

Episode 793 graphic featuring two images: Kristof Dhont with a black and white dog, and Jared Piazza in front of an insect sculpture. Two quotes are featured - Kristof: 'Most people do care about animal suffering. That's why they need to deny it all the time - because they care.' Jared: 'Just having knowledge isn't enough - there's a lot to do around capacity and social environment.' Our Hen House logo appears in top right corner.

🎧 NEW EPISODE: Why do people who care about animals continue to eat them? @jasminsinger.com & @marisul.bsky.social explore the fascinating psychology of animal advocacy with @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social & Jared Piazza from @phair-society.bsky.social. Check it out: ourhenhouse.org/ep793

Find PHAIR Journal's newest article: Signs of Change: Estimating the Impact of Animal Cruelty Billboards on Plant-Based and Dairy Milk Consumption in the UK here: phair.psychopen.eu/index.php/ph...

Don’t Mind Milk? An Interview with Maria Ioannidou Research on the psychology of animal product consumption is rapidly expanding into new areas, including dairy, egg, and fish consumption, moving beyond just meat consumption. Maria Ioannidou has be…

How is it possible that some people can stop eating meat over concern for animal welfare while continue consuming other animal products, knowing this involves severe animal welfare issues?

We interviewed Maria Ioannidou to find out!
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Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations (PHAIR) Ombudspersons’ Evaluation of Articles Published in 2022 and 2023| Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations

The journal PHAIR has recently published a report by its Ombudspersons who checked papers for biases and value-laden language, examined the quality of the methodology, sources, and evidence, and made recommendations to the editor. 🔍
Check it out here: doi.org/10.5964/phai...