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
- Leadership Social psychology Judgement and decision-making
BIO
Hallgeir Sjåstad is a Professor of Psychology and Leadership at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). He is affiliated with the research center FAIR (NHH), Center for Well-Being, Welfare and Happiness at Stockholm School of Economics, and Center for Conflict and Cooperation at New York University. Sjåstad is an active researcher in the international community, and a frequently invited public speaker.
In his research, Sjåstad studies the psychology of decision-making, social life, happiness and meaning, and future-oriented thinking. In his teaching, he gives courses and guest lectures on experimental research methods, social psychology, decision-making and happiness research (SOL21), and psychology and leadership (SOL1).
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 one year as a post-doc and 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Boggio, Paulo S.; Nezlek, John B.; Alfano, Mark; Azevedo, Flavio; Capraro, Valerio; Cichocka, Aleksandra; Pärnamets, Philip; Rego, Gabriel Gaudencio; Sampaio, Waldir M.; Sjåstad, Hallgeir; Van Bavel, Jay J. | A time for moral actions: Moral identity, morality-as-cooperation and moral circles predict support of collective action to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in an international sample | Group Processes & Intergroup Relations (0 pages); 2023 |
| Sjåstad, Hallgeir; Bø, Simen | Mental simulation of future possibilities: Preparing for action or protecting the self? | Possibility Studies & Society Volume 1 (4); 2023 |
| Sjåstad, Hallgeir; F. Baumeister, Roy | Fast optimism, slow realism? Causal evidence for a two-step model of future thinking | Cognition Volume 236 (14 pages); 2023 |
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.