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”.
Associate Professor Hallgeir Sjåstad
- s12180@nhh.no
- Telephone
- +47 55 95 97 62
- Department
- Strategy and Management
- Centre
- FAIR CSI
- Office
- D320
- Expertise
- Behavioural economics Social psychology Judgement and decision-making
BIO
Hallgeir Sjåstad is an Assistant Professor in Psychology and Behavioral Economics at NHH Norwegian School of Economics (Institute for Strategy and Management), and the FAIR Insight Team at Center for Applied Research (SNF).
Sjåstad is a clinical psychologist by training and holds an Advanced Master of Science degree from the University of Bergen (2012), and received his Ph.D. degree in psychology and decision-making from NHH in 2012. Sjåstad has been a visiting researcher at Florida State University and Carnegie Mellon University, and has published his research in the leading journals in his field.
Selected publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Vonasch, Andrew J.; Sjåstad, Hallgeir | Future-Orientation (as Trait and State) Promotes Reputation-Protective Choice in Moral Dilemmas | Social Psychological and Personality Science (0 pages); 2020 |
Dissemination
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.