About
Tim Wildschut is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Professor of Social and Personality Psychology. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Wildschut's research challenges the historical view of nostalgia as a negative emotion, presenting it instead as a complex, multi-faceted experience that can have positive psychological functions, such as enhancing social connectedness, fostering meaning, and strengthening self-continuity.
His research also extends into intergroup relations, including the interindividual-intergroup discontinuity effect, which explores why groups tend to be more competitive than individuals. His work on this problem was recognised with the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize.