Why do people multitask? When does multitasking increase and when does it decrease? And how do scientists study multitasking in the first place? A short summary of the recent paper by Ewa Szumowska from our Lab and Arie Kruglanski (University … Continued
We are proud to share that Ewa Szumowska from our lab received the OPUS grant from the National Science Centre! The project is titled ‘Balance Model of Goal Switching: From Multitasking to Extremism’ and you may read its description in … Continued
Our colleague Ewa Szumowska talks about her research on the relationship between the need for cognitive closure and multitasking in Science Trends. You can read the article >>HERE<< Highly recommended!
May multitasking performance be somehow dependent on the level of need for closure (NFC)? – according to new studies by the members of our Centre, yes! Ewa Szumowska and Małgorzata Kossowska together with Arne Roets (Ghent University, Belgium) recently published … Continued
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
Ewa Szumowska and Małgorzata Kossowska wrote second paper on the relationship between motivation and multitasking performance. They again showed that higher level of the Need for Cognitive Closure (NFC) is not a ‘bad’ thing. In contrast, they demonstrated that high … Continued
Ewa Szumowska and Małgorzata Kossowska from our lab published a paper that will be published in Personality and Individual Differences. It is titled ‘Need for closure and multitasking performance: The role of shifting ability’. You can read the paper (full version!) … Continued