Emeritus Professor Peter Warr

Books

• Warr P (2007) Work happiness and unhappiness. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Warr P () The Psychology of Happiness. Routledge.
• Warr P & Clapperton G () The Joy of Work?. Routledge.

Journal articles

• Warr PB, Sánchez-Cardona I, Taneva SK, Vera M, Bindl UK & Cifre E (2021) Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory, approach-affect and avoidance-affect.. Cognition and Emotion. View this article in WRRO
• Warr P (2018) Self-employment, personal values, and varieties of happiness–unhappiness. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 23(3), 388-401.
• Warr P & Inceoglu I (2018) Work orientations, well-being and job content of self-employed and employed professionals. Work, Employment and Society, 32(2), 292-311.
• Warr P & Inceoglu I (2015) Job features, job values, and affective strength. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 24(1), 101-112.
• Geimer JL, Leach DJ, DeSimone JA, Rogelberg SG & Warr PB (2015) Meetings at work: Perceived effectiveness and recommended improvements. Journal of Business Research, 68(9), 2015-2026.
• Warr P, Bindl UK, Parker SK & Inceoglu I (2014) Four-quadrant investigation of job-related affects and behaviours. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 23(3), 342-363.
• Warr P (2013) Fuentes de felicidad e infelicidad en el trabajo: una perspectiva combinada. Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones, 29(3), 99-106.
• Inceoglu I & Warr P (2011) Personality and Job Engagement. Journal of Personnel Psychology, 10(4), 177-181.
• Bartram D, Warr P & Brown A (2010) Let's Focus on Two-Stage Alignment Not Just on Overall Performance. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 3(3), 335-339.
• Leach DJ, Rogelberg SG, Warr PB & Burnfield JL (2009) Perceived Meeting Effectiveness: The Role of Design Characteristics. Journal of Business and Psychology, 24(1), 65-76.
• Warr P (2008) Work values: Some demographic and cultural correlates. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 81(4), 751-775.
• Inceoglu I, Warr P & Bartram D (2008) Personality and work values. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 43(3-4), 409-409.
• Warr P (2007) Searching for happiness at work. Psychologist, 20(12), 726-729.
• Warr P (2006) Differential activation of judgments in employee well-being. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 79(2), 225-244.
• Warr P, Bartram D & Brown A (2005) Big Five validity: Aggregation method matters. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 78(3), 377-386.
• Warr P, Bartram D & Martin T (2005) Personality and Sales Performance: Situational Variation and Interactions between Traits. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 13(1), 87-91.
• Warr P, Butcher V, Robertson I & Callinan M (2004) Older people's well-being as a function of employment, retirement, environmental characteristics and role preference. British Journal of Psychology, 95(3), 297-324.
• Warr P & Pearce A (2004) Preferences for Careers and Organisational Cultures as a Function of Logically Related Personality Traits. Applied Psychology, 53(3), 423-435.
• Warr P, Butcher V & Robertson I (2004) Activity and psychological well-being in older people. Aging & Mental Health, 8(2), 172-183.
• Patterson M, Warr P & West M (2004) Organizational climate and company productivity: The role of employee affect and employee level. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 77(2), 193-216.
• McCourt J & Warr P (2003) In love with work. PSYCHOLOGIST, 16(1), 28-29.
• Warr P & Hoare S (2002) Personality, Gender, Age and Logical Overlap in Multi‐Source Ratings. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 10(4), 279-291.
• Warr P, Miles A & Platts C (2001) Age and personality in the British population between 16 and 64 years. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 74(2), 165-199.
• Warr P (2000) Indirect processes in criterion-related validity. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 21(7), 731-745.
• Warr P & Bourne A (2000) Associations between rating content and self-other agreement in multi-source feedback. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 9(3), 321-334.
• Warr P & Downing J (2000) Learning strategies, learning anxiety and knowledge acquisition.. The British journal of psychology, 91.
• Warr P & Downing J (2000) Learning strategies, learning anxiety and knowledge acquisition. British Journal of Psychology, 91(3), 311-333.
• Warr P, Allan C & Birdi K (1999) Predicting three levels of training outcome. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 72(3), 351-375.
• Warr P (1999) Logical and judgmental moderators of the criterion-related validity of personality scales. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 72(2), 187-204.
• Waterson PE, Clegg CW, Bolden R, Pepper K, Warr PB & Wall TD (1999) The use and effectiveness of modern manufacturingpractices: A survey of UK industry. International Journal of Production Research, 37(10), 2271-2292.
• Warr P & Bourne A (1999) Factors influencing two types of congruence in multirater judgments. Human Performance, 12(3-4), 183-210.
• Warr P & Birdi K (1998) Employee age and voluntary development activity. International Journal of Training and Development, 2(3), 190-204.
• Fisk JE & Warr PB (1998) Associative Learning and Short-Term Forgetting as a Function of Age, Perceptual Speed, and Central Executive Functioning. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 53B(2), P112-121.
• Bolden R, Waterson P, Warr P, Clegg C & Wall T (1997) A new taxonomy of modern manufacturing practices. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 17(11), 1112-1130.
• Warr P (1997) Pleasure and the quality of life - Warburton,DM, Sherwood,N. PSYCHOLOGIST, 10(11), 512-512.
• Fisk JE & Warr P (1996) Age-related impairment in associative learning: The role of anxiety, arousal and learning self-efficacy. Personality and Individual Differences, 21(5), 675-686.
• Tucker P & Warr P (1996) Intelligence, elementary cognitive components, and cognitive styles as predictors of complex task performance. Personality and Individual Differences, 21(1), 91-102.
• Clark A, Oswald A & Warr P (1996) Is job satisfaction U-shaped in age?. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 69(1), 57-81.
• Birdi K, Warr P & Oswald A (1995) Age Differences in Three Components of Employee Well-being. Applied Psychology, 44(4), 345-373.
• Warr P & Yearta S (1995) Health and Motivational Factors In Sickness Absence. Human Resource Management Journal, 5(5), 33-48.
• Yearta SK & Warr P (1995) Does age matter?. Journal of Management Development, 14(7), 28-35.
• WARR P & BUNCE D (1995) TRAINEE CHARACTERISTICS AND THE OUTCOMES OF OPEN LEARNING. Personnel Psychology, 48(2), 347-375.
• Warr P & Pennington J (1994) Occupational Age-Grading: Jobs for Older and Younger Nonmanagerial Employees. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 45(3), 328-346.
• Warr P (1994) Research into the Work Performance of Older Employees. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 19(4), 472-480.
• Warr P (1994) A conceptual framework for the study of work and mental health. Work & Stress, 8(2), 84-97.
• Warr P (1993) In What Circumstances Does Job Performance Vary With Ages?. European Work and Organizational Psychologist, 3(3), 237-249.
• Warr P (1993) Training For Older Managers. Human Resource Management Journal, 4(2), 22-38.
• Warr P & Conner M (1992) The measurement of effective working styles during entry-level training. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 65(1), 17-32.
• WARR P & CONNER M (1992) JOB COMPETENCE AND COGNITION. RESEARCH IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, 14, 91-127.
• Conner M & Warr P (1991) REVIEW AND GUIDANCE OF TRAINEE WORKING STYLES. Industrial and Commercial Training, 23(7).
• Warr P (1990) The measurement of well-being and other aspects of mental health. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 63(3), 193-210.
• Warr PB (1990) Decision latitude, job demands, and employee well-being. Work & Stress, 4(4), 285-294.
• Warr P, Jackson P & Banks M (1988) Unemployment and Mental Health: Some British Studies. Journal of Social Issues, 44(4), 47-68.
• WARR P (1987) THIS UNHAPPY BREED. NEW SOCIETY, 81(1280), 16-18.
• Jackson PR & Warr P (1987) Mental health of unemployed men in different parts of England and Wales.. BMJ, 295(6597), 525-525.
• Warr P & Jackson P (1987) Adapting to the unemployed role: A longitudinal investigation. Social Science & Medicine, 25(11), 1219-1224.
• WARR P (1986) RESEARCH WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS. BULLETIN OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 39, A90-A90.
• WARR P (1985) JOBS AND MENTAL-HEALTH. BULLETIN OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 38(FEB), A52-A52.
• Ullah P, Banks M & Warr P (1985) Social support, social pressures and psychological distress during unemployment. Psychological Medicine, 15(2), 283-295.
• Warr P, Banks M & Ullah P (1985) The experience of unemployment among black and white urban teenagers. British Journal of Psychology, 76(1), 75-87.
• Warr P & Jackson P (1985) Factors influencing the psychological impact of prolonged unemployment and of re-employment. Psychological Medicine, 15(4), 795-807.
• Warr P (1984) Reported behaviour changes after job loss. British Journal of Social Psychology, 23(3), 271-275.
• Fryer D & Warr P (1984) Unemployment and cognitive difficulties. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 23(1), 67-68.
• Payne R, Warr P & Hartley J (1984) Social class and psychological ill-health during unemployment.. Sociology of Health and Illness, 6(2), 152-174.
• Jackson PR & Warr PB (1984) Unemployment and psychological ill-health: the moderating role of duration and age. Psychological Medicine, 14(3), 605-614.
• WARR P & JACKSON P (1984) Men without jobs: Some correlates of age and length of unemployment. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 57(1), 77-85.
• Lash S, Cook JD, Hepworth SJ, Wall TD & Warr PB (1983) The Experience of Work: A Compendium and Review of 249 Measurements and Their Use. The British Journal of Sociology, 34(4), 602-602.
• Warr P & Payne R (1983) Social Class and Reported Changes in Behavior After Job Loss. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 13(3), 206-222.
• Warr PB, Barter J & Brownbridge G (1983) On the independence of positive and negative affect.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44(3), 644-651.
• WARR P (1983) WORK, JOBS AND UNEMPLOYMENT. BULLETIN OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 36(SEP), 305-311.
• WARR P & PAYNE R (1983) AFFECTIVE OUTCOMES OF PAID EMPLOYMENT IN A RANDOM SAMPLE OF BRITISH WORKERS. JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL BEHAVIOUR, 4(2), 91-104.
• Warr P & Jackson P (1983) Self-esteem and unemployment among young workers. Travail Humain, 46(2), 355-366.
• BANKS MH, JACKSON PR, STAFFORD EM & WARR PB (1983) THE JOB COMPONENTS INVENTORY AND THE ANALYSIS OF JOBS REQUIRING LIMITED SKILL. Personnel Psychology, 36(1), 57-66.
• Warr P & Payne R (1982) Experiences of strain and pleasure among British adults. Social Science & Medicine, 16(19), 1691-1697.
• Warr P (1982) Psychological aspects of employment and unemployment. Psychological Medicine, 12(1), 7-11.
• WARR P (1982) A national study of non-financial employment commitment. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 55(4), 297-312.
• Warr P & Parry G (1982) Depressed mood in working-class mothers with and without paid employment. Social Psychiatry, 17(4), 161-165.
• Warr P, Jackson P & Banks M (1982) Duration of unemployment and psychological well-being in young men and women. Current Psychology, 2(1-3), 207-214.
• Warr P (1981) Psychological studies of union-management relations in the United Kingdom. Applied Psychology, 30(2), 311-320.
• WARR P (1981) STUDIES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING. BULLETIN OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 34(JAN), 36-36.
• PARRY G & WARR P (1980) The measurement of mothers' work attitudes. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 53(4), 245-252.
• WARR P (1979) The Content of Journals Relevant to Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 52(4), 235-240.
• WARR P, COOK J & WALL T (1979) Scales for the measurement of some work attitudes and aspects of psychological well-being. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 52(2), 129-148.
• Warr P (1978) A study of psychological well-being. British Journal of Psychology, 69(1), 111-121.
• WARR P & LOVATT J (1977) Retraining and other factors associated with job finding after redundancy. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 50(2), 67-84.
• Warr P & Jackson P (1977) Salience, importance and evaluation in judgements about people. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 16(1), 35-45.
• ASHTON S & WARR P (1976) Drivers Use of Seat Belts as a Function of Attitude and Anxiety. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 15(3), 261-265.
• Warr P & Jackson P (1976) Three weighting criteria in impression formation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 6(1), 41-49.
• Warr P & Jackson P (1975) The importance of extremity.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 32(2), 278-282.
• WARR P (1974) UNION-MANAGEMENT RELATIONSHIPS. BULLETIN OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 27(94), 67-67.
• WARR P & ROGERS C (1974) Some Personality Effects on Extreme Responding and on the Relative Weighting of Items in Combination. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 13(4), 347-357.
• Warr P (1974) Inference magnitude, range, and elevative direction as factors affecting relative importance of cues in impression formation.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 30(2), 191-197.
• WARR P (1974) COMBINING THREE ITEMS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION. British Journal of Psychology, 65(1), 1-5.
• JACKSON P & WARR P (1974) INSTANCES AND INFERENCES. British Journal of Psychology, 65(4), 547-549.
• WARR P (1973) TOWARDS A MORE HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY. BULLETIN OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 26(90), 1-8.
• Shaver P, Warr PB & Knapper C (1971) The Perception of People and Events. The American Journal of Psychology, 84(4), 591-591.
• Cross D & Warr P (1971) Work-group composition as a factor in productivity and satisfaction. Industrial Relations Journal, 2(3), 3-13.
• Warr PB (1971) Pollyanna's personal judgments. European Journal of Social Psychology, 1(3), 327-338.
• WARR PB & COFFMAN TL (1970) Personality, Involvement and Extremity of Judgement. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 9(2), 108-121.
• KAY H & WARR P (1970) SOME FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN OCCUPATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY. OCCUPATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, 44(1-4), 293-302.
• Warr PB & Coffman TL (1969) Affirmation and denial in the structure of inference rules. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 8(6), 705-712.
• WARR PB, LEE RE & JÖRESKOG KG (1969) A NOTE ON THE FACTORIAL NATURE OF THE F AND D SCALES. British Journal of Psychology, 60(1), 119-123.
• WARR PB, SCHRODER HM & BLACKMAN S (1969) The Structure of Political Judgement. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 8(1), 32-43.
• Warr PB, Schroder HM & Blackman S (1969) A Comparison of two Techniques for the Measurement of International Judgment. International Journal of Psychology, 4(2), 135-140.
• WARR PB, FAUST J & HARRISON GJ (1967) A British Ethnocentrism Scale. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 6(4), 267-277.
• Warr PB & Knapper C (1967) Negative Responses and Serial Position Effects on the Adjective Check List. The Journal of Social Psychology, 73(2), 191-197.
• WARR PB & KNAPPER C (1966) The Relative Importance of Verbal and Visual Information in Indirect Person Perception. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 5(2), 118-127.
• Warr PB (1966) A Serial Position Effect in the Preparation of Abstracts. Language and Speech, 9(4), 228-236.
• Knapper C & Warr PB (1965) The Effect of Position and Layout On the Readership of News Items. Gazette (Leiden, Netherlands), 11(4), 323-328.
• Knapper C & Warr PB (1965) The Effect of Position and Layout on the Readership of News Items. Gazette (Leiden, Netherlands), 11(2-3), 231-236.
• WARR PB (1965) Proximity as a Determinant of Positive and Negative Sociometric Choice. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 4(2), 104-109.
• WARR PB (1965) REPETITION AND VERBAL LEARNING. British Journal of Psychology, 56(2-3), 147-156.
• Warr PB & Sims A (1965) A study of cojudgment processes. Journal of Personality, 33(4), 598-604.
• Warr PB & Knapper C (1965) A Content Analysis of the English National Daily Press. Gazette (Leiden, Netherlands), 11(2-3), 139-147.
• Warr PB (1964) Repetition and the Recognition of Paired Associate Items. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 16(4), 361-363.
• WARR PB (1964) Repetition and Task Difficulty. Nature, 202(4930), 422-422.
• Warr PB (1964) The Effect of Repetition of Items on Two Phases of Paired Associate Learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 16(3), 224-231.
• WARR PB (1964) THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF PROACTIVE INHIBITION AND DEGREE OF LEARNING IN RETENTION OF PAIRED ASSOCIATE ITEMS. British Journal of Psychology, 55(1), 19-30.
• WARR PB (1964) ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR IN A HALL OF RESIDENCE. Higher Education Quarterly, 19(1), 56-68.
• Warr PB (1963) The Effect of Repeated Presentation of Items on Paired Associate Learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 15(4), 262-272.
• WARR PB (1963) Relationship between Degree of Learning and Retention. Nature, 197(4871), 1030-1030.
• Warr P & Inceoglu I () Job engagement, job satisfaction, and contrasting associations with person–job fit.. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 17(2), 129-138.
• BARTRAM D, WARR P & BROWN A () Let's Focus on Two-Stage Alignment Not Just on Overall Performance. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 3(3), 335-339.
• Rogelberg SG, Leach DJ, Warr PB & Burnfield JL () "Not Another Meeting!" Are Meeting Time Demands Related to Employee Well-Being?. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91(1), 83-96.
• Birdi K, Allan C & Warr P () Correlates and perceived outcomes of 4 types of employee development activity.. Journal of Applied Psychology, 82(6), 845-857.
• Fisk JE & Warr P () Age and working memory: The role of perceptual speed, the central executive, and the phonological loop.. Psychology and Aging, 11(2), 316-323.
• Bunce DJ, Warr PB & Cochrane T () Blocks in choice responding as a function of age and physical fitness.. Psychology and Aging, 8(1), 26-33.
• Warr P () Age and occupational well-being.. Psychology and Aging, 7(1), 37-45.
• Warr P & Parry G () Paid employment and women's psychological well-being.. Psychological Bulletin, 91(3), 498-516.
• Warr PB & Smith JS () Combining information about people: Comparisons between six models.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 16(1), 55-65.

Chapters

• Warr P (2008) Environmental “Vitamins”, Personal Judgments, Work Values, and Happiness Oxford University Press
• Warr P (1984) Job Loss, Unemployment and Psychological Well-Being, Role Transitions (pp. 263-285). Springer US
• Cross D & Warr P (1981) Work-group Composition as a Factor in Productivity and Satisfaction, Psychology and Industrial Productivity (pp. 141-160). Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Koppes LL () Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology Psychology Press
• Sinclair RR () Research Methods in Occupational Health Psychology Routledge
• Warr P () Work, Well-Being, and Mental Health, Handbook of Work Stress (pp. 547-574). SAGE Publications, Inc.

Conference proceedings papers

• Warr P (2009) A model of mental health and work attitudes. Contemporary Ergonomics 1984-2008: Selected Papers and an Overview of the Ergonomics Society Annual Conference (pp 75-84)
• Warr P & Patterson MG (2008) Environmental features, personal judgements, values and well-being. Environmental features, personal judgements, values and well-being
• Warr P (1998) Age, work, and mental health. IMPACT OF WORK ON OLDER ADULTS (pp 252-296)
• Warr P (1995) In what circumstances does job performance vary with age?. WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: EUROPEAN CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE NINETIES (pp 1-13)
• WARR P (1992) JOB FEATURES AND EXCESSIVE STRESS. PREVENTION OF MENTAL ILL HEALTH AT WORK: A CONFERENCE (pp 40-49)