Gregory R. Maio Ph.D.

Gregory R. Maio, Ph.D., is author of The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change (with G. Haddock and Bas Verplanken, 2018), and The Psychology of Values (2017). He recently served as Senior Associate Editor for Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2006-2008) and has edited several volumes on topics related to attitudes (Why We Evaluate: Functions of Attitudes, Contemporary Perspectives on the Psychology of Attitudes, and Major Works: The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change). He has advised the UK, Welsh, and Scottish Governments on diverse topics (e.g., littering, obesity, prejudice reduction) and frequently assists a network of global charities (esp., WWF, OXFAM) in learning more about the role of social values in behaviour.

He became interested in social psychology, and values-attitude-behaviour processes in particular, as an undergraduate student at York University (Canada), graduating in 1991. He went on to complete a Masters thesis and a PhD dissertation on value-attitude-behaviour processes under the guidance of Prof. James M. Olson at the University of Western Ontario (Canada), where his dissertation, Values as Truisms, received a Governor-General Gold Medal and an American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award. In 1997, he joined Cardiff University, Wales, where he received the British Psychological Society Spearman Medal (2002) for his early career research and was granted a Personal Chair (i.e., Professorship) in Psychology (2004). He moved to the University of Bath in 2016, where he is currently Head of the Department of Psychology.