Does Failure Make Victory Seem Sweeter?
Associate Professor Hallgeir Sjåstad investigates the “sour-grape effect”
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Reynolds, Tania; Howard, Chuck; Sjåstad, Hallgeir; Zhu, Luke; Okimoto, Tyler G.; Baumeister, Roy F.; Kim, JongHan | Man up and take it: Gender bias in moral typecasting | Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Volume 161; page 120 - 141; 2020 |
Sjåstad, Hallgeir; Zhang, Ming; Masvie, Andreas Espegren; Baumeister, Roy F. | Social exclusion reduces happiness by creating expectations of future rejection | Self and Identity; 2020 |
Ent, Michael R.; Sjåstad, Hallgeir; von Hippel, William; Baumeister, Roy F. | Helping behavior is non-zero-sum: Helper and recipient autobiographical accounts of help | Evolution and human behavior Volume 41 (3); page 210 - 217; 2020 |
Sjåstad, Hallgeir; Baumeister, Roy F.; Ent, Michael R. | Greener grass or sour grapes? How people value future goals after initial failure | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Volume 88 (15 pages); 2020 |
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.