Maryna Kołeczek, Katarzyna Jamróz-Dolińska, Mirjana Rupar, and Maciej Sekerdej from our lab just published a new paper in Personality and Individual Differences. They found differences in the way critical and uncritical patriots think. Critical patriotism is the willingness to criticize one’s … Continued
A new paper by Maciek Sekerdej and Roger Giner-Sorolla was just published in Social Psychology! Interpersonal research has shown that guilt motivates perpetrators to compensate victims at the expense of a third party, indicating that the emotion’s goal involves reparative … Continued
People who feel that they have no impact on politics tend to vote less often, which results in the fact that they are underrepresented in elections. Thus they cannot change the things they don’t like in politics, which works as … Continued
While there are reasons to expect that peer harassment experienced in adolescence is positively related to political radicalisation, this relationship has not yet been investigated. Marta Miklikowska, Katarzyna Jasko (from CSCS), and Ales Kudrnac examined this hypothesis in the five-wave … Continued
Open Science encompasses a range of behaviors that aim to improve the transparency of scientific research. This article (co-authored by Katarzyna Jasko from CSCS) provides a toolbox of recommendations and resources for those aspiring to promote open scientific practices. The … Continued
We are pleased to share a new paper by the team of researchers with Sindhuja Sankaran from our Lab. They proposed an integrated framework to understand the consequences of COVID-19 threats for group dynamics and intergroup relations. Special attention was … Continued
Resistance to granting refugee status to individuals often originates in the belief that the influx of refugees endangers national security because of the presumably extremist ideological beliefs refugees hold. The popularity of such narratives says more about the psychology of … Continued
A new paper by the members of our lab! Małgorzata Kossowska, Paulina Szwed, and Gabriela Czarnek have described a series of three studies, in which they examined the link between ideology, trust in scientists, and attitudes toward vaccines. They found … Continued
A new paper in Motivation and Emotion authored by Paulina Szwed, Małgorzata Kossowska, and Marcin Bukowski from our Centre is already published! Authors tested the effort pattern under uncontrollability situations for individuals with different level of uncertainty tolerance. They found … Continued
We highly recommend a new paper by Gabriela Czarnek and Małgorzata Kossowska from our Centre. In the article, our colleagues analyzed the effects of needs for security and certainty (NSC) on economic beliefs and they suggested that these relationships are … Continued