Short Academic Bio
Nicolas Sommet is an assistant professor and head of research at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. His research examines the psychological consequences of economic inequality and the dynamics of achievement motivation. He also works to make statistics more accessible.
In recent years, Nicolas Sommet has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant (2026-2031) to investigate how income inequality reproduces itself by shaping school culture, an SNSF grant (2026-2033) to examine subjective well-being across the life course worldwide using more than 200 panel datasets from 90 countries, and an SNSF Ambizione grant (2020-2024) to test whether living in places with high income inequality predicts well-being.
He is an Associate Editor at the European Journal of Social Psychology and member of the Executive Committee of ADRIPS.
Recent Publications
Sommet, N., Fillon, A., Rudmann, O., Rossi Saldanha Cunha, A., & Ehsan, A. (2026). No meta-analytic effect of economic inequality on well-being or mental health. Nature, 649, 926-937
Sommet, N., & Lipps, A. (2025). A primer on fixed-effects and fixed-effects panel modeling using R, Stata, and SPSS. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8(4).
Batruch, A.,* Sommet, N.,* & Autin, F.* (2025). Advancing the psychology of social class with large-scale replications in four countries. Nature Human Behaviour, 9, 2382-2403
*The authors are co-first authors
Sommet, N. & Elliot, A. J. (2023). A competitiveness-based theoretical framework on the psychology of income inequality. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32, 318-327.