National identity and Covid-19
Individuals who identified more strongly with their nation reported greater engagement in public health behaviours, during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Hallgeir Sjåstad is a Professor of Psychology and Leadership at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Department of Strategy and Management. He is also an affiliated researcher at FAIR (NHH) and Center for Conflict and Cooperation at New York University.
In his research, Hallgeir studies how people make decisions, interact in social life, and think about the future. This include specific topics like heuristic judgment, prediction and planning, moral decision-making, social belonging, autonomy and freedom, and the good life. By combining perspectives from social psychology, decision-making research (JDM) and behavioral economics, he uses both large-scale experiments and global survey methods in his work.
Hallgeir is an active researcher in the international community of psychology and social science, and has published his research in leading journals such as Cognition, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Nature Human Behavior, and Nature Communications. In his teaching, Hallgeir gives lectures in leadership and organizational psychology (SOL1), decision-making and happiness research (SOL21), experimental research methods, and social psychology. He is also a frequently invited public speaker, discussing his own and others’ research on decision-making, social interaction, the good life, and leadership.
Hallgeir Sjåstad is a clinical psychologist by training (Cand.psychol. six-year degree), holding an Advanced Master of Science degree from the University of Bergen (2012), and received his Ph.D. degree in psychology and decision science from NHH in 2017. After working one year as a post-doc at NHH and two years as assistant professor in psychology and behavioral economics in the FAIR Insight Team at SNF, he returned to the strategy department at NHH as associate professor in 2020. In 2022, Hallgeir was promoted to full professor at the age of 36, only 5 years since he defended his PhD.
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Vlasceanu, Madalina; Doell, Kimberly C.; Coleman, Joseph B. Bak; Todorova, Boryana; Berkebile-Weinberg, Michael; Grayson, Samantha J.; Patel, Yash; Goldwert, Danielle; Pei, Yifei; Chakroff, Alek; Pronizius, Ekaterina; van den Broek, Karlijn L.; Vlasceanu, Denisa; Constantino, Sara M.; Morais, Michael J.; Schumann, Philipp; Rathje, Steve; Bø, Simen; Sjåstad, Hallgeir | Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries | Science Advances Volume 10; 2024 |
Baumeister, Roy F.; Kellerman, Gabriella; Reece, Andrew; Ruscio, Ayelet Meron; Sjåstad, Hallgeir | Pragmatic prospection: Theory, research, and practice | Advances in motivation science Volume 11; page 1 - 38; 2024 |
Bø, Simen; Sjåstad, Hallgeir | Revisiting the moral forecasting error – A preregistered replication and extension of “Are we more moral than we think?” | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Volume 115 (0 pages); 2024 |
Azevedo, Flavio; Pavlovic, Tomislav; Rego, Gabriel G.; Ay, Fehime Ceren; Gjoneska, Biljana; Etienne, Tom W.; Ross, Robert M.; Schönegger, Philipp; Riano-Moreno, Julian C.; Cichocka, Aleksandra; Capraro, Valerio; Cian, Luca; Longoni, Chiara; Chan, Ho Fai; Van Bavel, Jay J.; Sjåstad, Hallgeir; Nezlek, John B.; Alfano, Mark; Gelfand, Michele J.; Birtel, Michele D.; Cislak, Aleksandra; Lockwood, Patricia L.; Abts, Koen; Agadullina, Elena; Aruta, John Jamir Benzon; Besharati, Sahba Nomvula; Bor, Alexander; Choma, Becky L.; Crabtree, Charles David; Cunningham, William A.; De, Koustav; Ejaz, Waqas; Elbaek, Christian T.; Findor, Andrej; Flichtentrei, Daniel; Franc, Renata; Gruber, June; Gualda, Estrella; Horiuchi, Yusaku; Huynh, Toan Luu Duc; Ibanez, Agustin; Imran, Mostak Ahamed; Israelashvili, Jacob; Jasko, Katarzyna; Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw; Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Elena; Mayiwar, Lewend; Otterbring, Tobias; Boggio, Paulo S.; Sampaio, Waldir M. | Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries | Scientific Data Volume 10 (26 pages); 2023 |
Individuals who identified more strongly with their nation reported greater engagement in public health behaviours, during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Associate Professor Hallgeir Sjåstad investigates the “sour-grape effect”
New working paper by Katrine Nødtvedt, Hallgeir Sjåstad (FAIR Insight Team), Siv Skard, Helge Thorbjørnsen and Jay Van Bavel: “Racial bias in the sharing economy and the role of trust”.
Can nudging become the solution to the greatest challenges of our time such as economic inequality and climate change?
New published paper in Psychology of Consciousness by Roy Baumeister (University of Queensland/Florida State University), Heather Maranges (Florida State University) and Hallgeir Sjåstad (FAIR Insight Team/SNF): «Consciousness of the Future as a Matrix of Maybe: Pragmatic Prospection and the Simulation of Alternative Possibilities.»
New paper published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology: “The Future and the Will: Planning requires self-control, and ego depletion leads to planning aversion”, by Hallgeir Sjåstad (postdoc at NHH/FAIR) and Roy Baumeister (Florida State University).
If you fail to keep your New Year’s resolution to work out three times a week already in the first week of the year, that does not make it even more important for you to reach this goal. The opposite is the case.