Hi!

My name is Simen. I am pursuing a PhD in Psychology and Decision Science at the Department of Strategy and Management, Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, Norway. My supervisor is Hallgeir Sjåstad, Professor of Psychology and Leadership at the same department.

I am currently a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley. My faculty sponsor is Associate Professor Juliana Schroeder.

In my research, I study judgment and decision making, with an emphasis on how people think about the future. Are our predictions accurate? What are the benefits of simulating our own future? Why do we sometimes choose to plan to reach our goals, and sometimes not? These are some of the research questions that I am trying to help answer.

My interest in future thinking is combined with a focus on moral judgments and moral preferences. For example, having a long-term perspective seems to confer some moral benefits, including increased prosociality, generosity, and cooperation. Additionally, our predictions about our own moral behavior may not match up with our actual behavior, and these prediction errors may influence how we approach social situations. I am excited to be looking at these intricate connections between future thinking and morality.

I pursue these research questions mainly through the use of experimental research methods. I emphasize open science in all my projects, specifically by sharing data online, using pre-registration and sharing papers as open pre-prints.

Additionally, I have a strong passion for research dissemination. As a student, I wrote popular science articles covering an extensive number of topics, including personality psychology,  the replication crisis, radicalization, morality, and happiness. As a PhD Candidate, I try to use my research knowledge to provide critical perspectives on current topics.

Feel free to contact me at [email protected].