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
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
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
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
Katarzyna Jaśko from our Centre, Daniel Bar – Tal, Arie W. Kruglanski and Philip G. Zimbardo are the psychologists that Gazeta Wyborcza cites in the context of current political situation in Poland. How conflicts are shaped (especially by uncertainty) and how … Continued
Prof. Małgorzata Kossowska gave interview for “POLITYKA”, polish weekly magazine. The topic was knowledge formation and the need for certainty in everyday life. You can read the interview >>here<< (available in polish only).
