Primary Interests:
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Group Processes
- Intergroup Relations
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Self and Identity
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Tim Wildschut
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My main research interests cover various aspects of intergroup conflict and self-relevant emotions. In addition, I am interested in psychological measurement and statistics.
Nostalgia: I study the content, antecedents, and functions of nostalgia. Initial findings support the idea that nostalgia is a predominantly positive, self-relevant emotion associated with recall of past experiences involving interaction with close others.
Intergroup conflict: I seek to identify antecedents of intergroup conflict by investigating what differences between intergroup and interindividual relations can account for the fact that intergroup relations are often more competitive (the discontinuity effect).
Guilt proneness: I am interested in the seemingly paradoxical positive association between guilt proneness and intergroup competition.
Journal Articles:
- Pinter, B., Insko, C. A., Wildschut, T, Kirchner, J. L., Montoya, R. M., & Wolf, S. T. (2007). Reduction of interindividual-intergroup discontinuity: The role of leader accountability and proneness to guilt. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 250-265.
- Routledge, C., Arndt, J., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Hart, C. M., Juhl, J., Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M., & Schlotz, W. (2011). The past makes the present meaningful: Nostalgia as an existential resource. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 638-652.
- Rusbult, C. E., Van Lange, P. A. M., Wildschut, T., Yovetich, N. A., & Verette, J. (2000). Why perceived superiority in close relationships exists and persists. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 521-545.
- Wildschut, T., Insko, C. A., & Gaertner, L. (2002). Intragroup social influence and intergroup competition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 975-992.
- Wildschut, T., Pinter, B., Vevea, J. L., Insko, C. A., & Schopler, J. (2003). Beyond the group mind: A quantitative review of the interindividual-intergroup discontinuity effect. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 698-722.
- Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Arndt, J., & Routledge, C. (2006). Nostalgia: Content, triggers, functions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 975-993.
- Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Routledge, C., Arndt, J., & Cordaro, F. (2010). Nostalgia as a repository of social connnectedness: The role of attachment-related avoidance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 573-586.
Phone: (+44) (0)23 80592639
Tim Wildschut
School of Psychology
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom