035 - A/Prof Mohsen Joshanloo

What happens when you use the right methodology

Dr Mohsen Joshanloo is an Associate Professor in Psychology at Keimyung University, South Korea. He is a personality psychologist and cross-cultural psychologist, and has dedicated his career to understanding mental well-being and the role of culture in shaping it.

We work through Mohsen’s longitudinal research, and the powerful implications of using within-person, longitudinal research methods. It gets slightly technical, but Mohsen walks us through some examples where his work has shown some surprising results, in part from using uncommon research methods which can deal with some of the variability between people - something that is often overlooked (particularly in cross-sectional work).

Mohsen has a great sense of humour, and (since we spoke) has just published a study debunking any link between zodiac signs and wellbeing. Follow Mohsen’s work at: https://mohsenjoshanloo.weebly.com/