Jonas R. Kunst

Jonas R. Kunst is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Oslo (UiO) and holds a part-time professorship in Psychology II at UiO, with an upcoming full professorship in Communication at BI Norwegian Business School in 2025. He is affiliated with the Department of Psychology within the Faculty of Social Sciences, specializing in methodology, work, culture, and social psychology. His research is interdisciplinary, spanning social, cultural, and political psychology.

His primary research interests include acculturation (particularly majority-group acculturation), prejudice and discrimination, violent extremism, misinformation and conspiracy theories, environmental and food psychology, and the integration of artificial intelligence in psychological research. His work often adopts a cross-cultural perspective, involving large-scale international collaborations across dozens of countries.

The trends in his recent publications reveal a strong focus on understanding the psychological underpinnings of societal challenges such as extremism, misinformation, climate change, and intergroup conflict. He frequently employs meta-analytic, experimental, and computational methods, including machine learning and AI, to analyze complex social phenomena. His work appears in leading journals like Nature Communications, PNAS, Psychological Science, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

• Editor-in-Chief: Advances in Psychology
• Editor of Special Issue on Majority-Group Acculturation in International Journal of Intercultural Relations
• Editorial Board Member: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (incoming), Personality and Social Psychology Review, International Journal of Intercultural Relations
• Grant Reviewer: European Commission Horizon 2020, U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation
• Ad-hoc Reviewer: American Psychologist, Psychological Science, Nature Communications, and over 30 other journals

Jonas R. Kunst leads and contributes to several research projects such as NAVIGATE (on ethnic minorities and discrimination), VegProt (on food habits), APVIOLEXT (on pathways to extremism), and Webimmunization (on online misinformation resilience). He is a core member of the Culture, Society & Behavior Lab (CSB Lab) and the Social Psychology Research Group at UiO, where he mentors students and collaborates on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research.