On June 12th Ewa Szumowska from our Centre defended her thesis titled ”Motivational predictors of multitasking performance: Need for cognitive closure and multitasking strategy and performance”. Prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Kossowska was the thesis supervisor, the reviewers were prof. dr hab. … Continued
Conspiracy theories may be attractive to people who seek certainty when facing unclear situations – that was an assumption of research conducted by Marta Marchlewska (University of Warsaw) together with Aleksandra Cichocka (University of Kent, UK) and Małgorzata Kossowska from … Continued
Embodied cognition – a perspective joining cognitive with physical aspects of human functioning – gained lots of attention recentely. Katarzyna Cantarero and Michał Parzuchowski together with Karolina Dukała from our Centre tested whether hand-over-heart gesture diminishes other-oriented dishonesty, as previous … Continued
Condition of social psychology is a matter that Arie Kruglanski and Marina Chernikova together with Katarzyna Jasko from our Centre investigate in the paper published by European Journal of Social Psychology. In-depth analysis let the authors reflect on both – … Continued
Małgorzata Kossowska, Paulina Szwed, Aneta Czernatowicz-Kukuczka, Maciek Sekerdej and Miroslaw Wyczesany ran a psychophysiological study on threat relieving strategies in religious context. Groups that hold a certain worldview often react with prejudice toward groups of opposit views. Following this reasoning, … Continued
New paper from our lab! Ewa Szumowska, Paulina Szwed, Małgorzata Kossowska & Rex Wright (University of Texas) published their paper titled “Multifaceted Effects of Need for Cognitive Closure on Effort: A Cardiovascular Response Study. Motivation Science” in “Motivation Science”. In … Continued
A new paper from our group! Sindhuja Sankaran, Ewa Szumowska, & Małgorzata Kossowska published their article “When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Motivation towards closure and effort investment in the performance of cognitive tasks” in Motivation & … Continued
Happy Easter to all our collaborators, friends, & family 🙂
We have a new paper published in Frontiers in Psychology! Sindhuja Sankaran and Maciek Sekerdej from our Centre together with Ulrich von Hecker from Cardiff University examined the effects of norm violation on status representation in the context of the … Continued
Małgorzata Kossowska in an interview for the Polish Press Agency (PAP) explained how people of dogmatic religiosity behave when facing uncerianty. Relying on the recent EEG study conducted with collaborators (Paulina Szwed, Eligiusz Wronka, Gabriela Czarnek, and Mirosław Wyczesany), she … Continued