Tim Wildschut is Professor of Social and Personality Psychology at the University of Southampton.
I received my PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. I am a recipient of the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize.
I am a member of the Centre for Research on Self and Identity and the Social and Personality Psychology Research Group.
My main research interests cover various aspects of intergroup conflict and self-relevant emotions, in particular nostalgia. In addition, I am interested in psychological measurement and statistics.
Nostalgia: I am conducting a collaborative program of research that seeks to identify the content, antecedents, and functions of nostalgia. Our 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 conflict prone.
Centre for Research on Self and Identity (CRSI)
I am a member of the Centre for Research on Self and Identity and the Social and Personality Psychology Research Group.
I teach on the following modules:
SYC 1005: Thinking Psychologically
PSYC 1012: Empirical Studies 1
PSYC 2003: Social Psychology
PSYC 3024: Self-Conscious Emotions
PSYC 3003: Empirical Project: Literature Review
PSYC 3005: Empirical Project: Research Paper
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