Emeritus Professor Peter Warr
Emeritus Professor
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Professor Peter Warr is an Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Work Psychology.
Areas of Expertise
- Personality, motivation and behaviour
- Happiness and unhappiness in work settings
- Age differences in employment settings
Current Areas of Research
Worker happiness and unhappiness
Motivation and engagement
Personality patterns and correlates
Person-job fit
Qualifications
BA, University of Cambridge
PhD, University of Sheffield
Spearman Medal of the British Psychological Society for distinguished research
Presidents’ Award of the British Psychological Society for outstanding contributions to psychological knowledge
Chartered Psychologist
Professional Affiliations
Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society
Fellow of the International Association of Applied Psychology
Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Foreign Affiliate of the American Psychological Association
Example Publications
More than 220 articles and 25 books. Some recent illustrations:
Warr, P. B. (2010). What about the workers? Occupational Health Psychology News, 8, 8-9.
Warr, P. and Clapperton, G. (2009). The Joy of Work? Jobs, Happiness, and You. London: Routledge.
Warr, P. (2009). Environmental “vitamins”, personal judgments, work values, and happiness. Pages 57-85 in S. Cartwright and C. Cooper (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Well-being (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Warr, P. B. (2008). Work values: Some demographc and cultural correlates. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 81, 751-775.
Warr, P. B. (2007). Work, Happiness, and Unhappiness. New York: Routledge.
Warr, P. B. (2006). Differential activation of judgments in employee well-being. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 79, 225-244.
Birdi, K.S., Warr, P.B. & Oswald, A.J. (1995). Age differences in three components of employee well-being. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 44(4), 345-373.

