What is a mechanism of dogmatism, which forms does it take, what are the consequences and… why bother? Małgorzata Kossowska, the Head of our Centre, explains this complex phenomena in an interview for the BBC World Service. Listen to the … Continued
This Monday Agnieszka Strojny from our Centre defended her thesis on the role of epistemical motivation (need for cognitive closure) and cognitive resources accessibility on susceptibility to fundamental attribution error. Prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Kossowska was the thesis supervisor, the reviewers of the … Continued
The 13th Winter Seminar took place January 27 – 29th in Szczyrk. During 3 days of meeting we discussed more than 20 presentations on very broad scope of topics (from bilingualism and control deprivation to stereotyping), all connected to social … Continued
We are pleased to share that Piotr Dragon was awarded with HARMONIA grant from the National Science Center. His project The relationship between two dimensions of social perception – warmth and competence – from connectionist modeling perspective. Piotr will work on the project with … Continued
Last Thursday, member of our team, Marta Szastok, defended her thesis on the relationship between women’s benevolent and hostile sexism impact on perception on other women in traditional and nontraditional roles. The reviewers of Marta’s thesis were prof. dr hab. … Continued
To all our friends, collaborators, and people interested in social psychology: Merry Christmas and all the best for upcoming year 2017!
This year our team joined efforts to prepare a noble box: a Christmas gift for a family in need. Again, our leader was Ewa Szumowska! Ewa, thank you for your inspiration and efforts to make it happen.
We are happy to share that during the first meeting of the new Council of the National Science Centre on December 15th prof. Małgorzata Kossowska, head of our group, was nominated as a leader of the Arts, Humanities and Social … Continued
Katarzyna Jaśko, Gary LaFree, and Arie Kruglanski published an article about radicalization in ‘Political Psychology’. In a group of 1496 individuals who committed ideologically motivated crimes in the US they found that instances of low personal significance were related to greater … Continued
During our last lab group meeting we had a pleasure to host Hans-Peter Erb, a professor from Helmut-Schimdt University in Hamburg. He gave a talk on the Need for Uniqueness titled ‘When minority status appeals: The case of uniqueness’. As … Continued