{"id":1151,"date":"2026-10-16T18:48:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/?page_id=1151"},"modified":"2026-10-16T18:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:51:58","slug":"pierce-veitch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/pierce-veitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierce Veitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1152 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/files\/2026\/10\/Pierce-Veitch-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Pierce is an ESRC-funded PhD researcher in social and political psychology at the University of Kent. His doctoral research examines public trust in AI-assisted policymaking and the political leaders who use these tools. He uses experimental, qualitative, and computational text analysis methods to investigate questions in moral and political psychology.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">In terms of human\u2013animal intergroup relations research, he focuses on how political ideology, and social environments shape people\u2019s relationships with non-human animals. His work examines the psychosocial experiences of ethical vegans, including vystopia: the distress associated with perceiving society\u2019s treatment of animals as fundamentally at odds with one\u2019s moral values. He is interested in the relationship between political orientation and animal advocacy, including why favourable attitudes towards animals may fail to translate into sustained behaviour change. Across these interests, he seeks to understand the psychological barriers to adopting and maintaining plant-based diets and engaging in animal advocacy.<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><em><strong>Publications:<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><strong>Veitch, P<\/strong>., &amp; Gregson, R. (2026). Left-Wing Inertia Toward Animal Advocacy: A Research Blind Spot. <i>Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations<\/i>, <i>5<\/i>, 1-5.<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">Claessens, S., <strong>Veitch, P<\/strong>., &amp; Everett, J. A. (2025). Negative perceptions of outsourcing to artificial intelligence. <i>Computers in Human Behavior<\/i>, 108894.<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><strong>Veitch, P.<\/strong>, &amp; Gregson, R. (2025). The vegan dystopia: Understanding the psychosocial experience of Vystopia. <i>Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations<\/i>, <i>4<\/i>, 1-22.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierce is an ESRC-funded PhD researcher in social and political psychology at the University of Kent. His doctoral research examines public trust in AI-assisted policymaking and the political leaders who use these tools. He uses experimental, qualitative, and computational text analysis methods to investigate questions in moral and political psychology. In terms of human\u2013animal intergroup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84686,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1151","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1151\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}