Emeritus Professor Peter Warr

BA, PhD

Management School

Emeritus Professor

P.Warr@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 3231

E010, Sheffield University Management School

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Emeritus Professor Peter Warr
Management School
E010
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL

Profile

Peter Warr is an Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Work Psychology.

Areas of expertise

Factors influencing happiness and unhappiness
Motivation, personality and behaviour
Age differences in employment

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

Research interests

Worker happiness and unhappiness
Motivation and engagement
Self-employed workers’ motives and happiness
Person-job fit

Publications

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)

Research group: The Institute of Work Psychology

Professional activities

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