Ivars Austers

Ivars Austers began his career in social psychology by studying social groups. He was also interested in the human ability of perspective-taking, particularly, how and under which conditions people could guess what others have on their minds. By doing this research Ivars earned his doctoral degree from Stockholm University as well as a job at the University of Latvia where he currently holds the position of Professor of Social Psychology. His research interests are social identity, perspective-taking, human decision-making, and traffic psychology. “A nicely done experiment in social psychology carries an aesthetic beauty”.