Does Failure Make Victory Seem Sweeter?
Associate Professor Hallgeir Sjåstad investigates the “sour-grape effect”
Associate Professor Hallgeir Sjåstad
- hallgeir.sjastad@nhh.no
- Telephone
- +47 55 95 97 62
- Department
- Strategy and Management
- Centre
- FAIR
- Office
- E323
- Expertise
- Behavioural economics Social psychology Judgement and decision-making
BIO
Hallgeir Sjåstad is an Associate 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, organizational psychology and leadership (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.
Selected publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Nødtvedt, Katrine Berg; Sjåstad, Hallgeir; Skard, Siv E. Rosendahl; Thorbjørnsen, Helge; Van Bavel, Jay J. | Racial bias in the sharing economy and the role of trust and self-congruence | Journal of experimental psychology. Applied; 2021 |
| Skard, Siv; Knudsen, Eirik Sjåholm; Sjåstad, Hallgeir; Thorbjørnsen, Helge | How virtual reality influences travel intentions: The role of mental imagery and happiness forecasting | Tourism Management Volume 87; page 1 - 9; 2021 |
| Bø, Simen; Sjåstad, Hallgeir; Norman, Elisabeth | Working for the Best or Bracing for the Worst? Approach and Avoidance Motivation in Planning | Collabra: Psychology; 2021 |
| 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 |
Dissemination
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.