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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Social Psychology, Industrial and Organisational Psychology |
| Keywords | Social cognition, judgment, self, motivation, self |
| Honours and awards | : He is author of Beyond Pleasure and Pain: How Motivation Works (Oxford) and Shared Reality: What Makes Us Strong and Tears Us Apart (Oxford). A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, he received the APS William James Fellow Award and the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | New York City |
| Institution | Columbia University |
| Institute | Department of Psychology |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Gerald Echterhoff | Institut für Psychologie, Sozialpsychologie, Universität Münster, Münster |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/06/2016 |
Programme(s)
| 2015 | Anneliese Maier Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Higgins is one of the most influential and most respected scholars in psychology. In a recent list of the world’s 100 most eminent psychologists of the modern era, published by the American Psychological Association, he is among grand pioneers of psychology such as Jean Piaget, Noam Chomsky, B. F. Skinner, and Daniel Kahneman. Tory Higgins has developed several highly influential and elegant theories in the fields of social cognition, motivation, and interpersonal processes, such as self-discrepancy theory, accessibility theory, regulatory focus theory, and shared reality theory, all firmly anchored in rigorous empirical studies. The research conducted in collaboration with his host in Münster will focus on humans’ motivation to create shared reality with others, including implications for social influence, intergroup conflict, radicalization, and refugee integration. This work will reveal the benefits and downsides of our distinct human motive to share our feelings, beliefs, and concerns with other people. |