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.
Professor Hallgeir Sjåstad
- hallgeir.sjastad@nhh.no
- Telephone
- +47 55 95 97 62
- Department
- Strategy and Management
- Centre
- FAIR
- Office
- D320
- Expertise
- Behavioural economics Social psychology Judgement and decision-making
BIO
Hallgeir Sjåstad is a Professor of Psychology and Leadership at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), at the Department of Strategy and Management. He is affiliated with the Center for Sustainable Business and the research center FAIR.
In his research, Sjåstad studies the psychology of time, decision-making, and social life. In his teaching, he gives courses and lectures in experimental research methods, social psychology, leadership and organizational psychology (SOL1), decision-making and happiness research (SOL21).
Sjåstad is a clinical psychologist by training (Cand.psychol.), 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 two years as Assistant Professor in psychology and behavioral economics at the FAIR Insight Team (SNF), he returned to the strategy department (NHH) as Associate Professor in 2020. In 2022, Sjåstad was promoted to full professor at the age of 36, only 5 years since he defended his PhD.
Selected publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Van Bavel, Jay J.; Cichocka, Aleksandra; Capraro, V; Sjåstad, Hallgeir; Nezlek, J. B.; Boggio, P. S. | National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic | Nature Communications; 2022 |
| Sjåstad, Hallgeir; Ay, Fehime Ceren; Pavlović, Tomislav; Azevedo, Flavio; De, Koustav; Riaño-Moreno, Julián C.; Maglić, Marina; Gkinopoulos, Theofilos; Donnelly-Kehoe, Patricio Andres | Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning | PNAS Nexus; 2022 |
| Sætrevik, Bjørn; Sjåstad, Hallgeir | Mortality salience effects fail to replicate in traditional and novel measures | Meta-Psychology; 2022 |
| Dahlen, Michael; Thorbjørnsen, Helge; Sjåstad, Hallgeir; Wågert, Petra von Heideken; Hellström, Charlotta; Kerstis, Birgitta; Lindberg, Daniel; Stier, Jonas; Elven, Maria | Changes in Physical Activity Are Associated with Corresponding Changes in Psychological Well-Being: A Pandemic Case Study | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) Volume 18 (20); 2021 |
Dissemination
Does Failure Make Victory Seem Sweeter?
Associate Professor Hallgeir Sjåstad investigates the “sour-grape effect”
Racial Bias in the Sharing Economy and the Role of Trust
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”.
A nudge in the right direction?
Can nudging become the solution to the greatest challenges of our time such as economic inequality and climate change?
Consciousness of the Future as a Matrix of Maybe: Pragmatic Prospection and the Simulation of Alternative Possibilities
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.»
Planning requires self-control, and ego depletion leads to planning aversion
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).
Why do we give up so easily?
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.