We are interested in the field of social cognition. Our research is primarily focused on the cognitive, motivational and emotional mechanisms of various social phenomena, like social influence, persuasion, self and emotional regulation, social perception and evaluation, and also stereotyping and prejudice.
A new paper in Current Opinion in Psychology by our lab members!
People sometimes avoid information on purpose, a behavior known as willful ignorance. Most explanations focus on specific motives, but this research suggests a broader perspective: avoiding information can be understood as part of... READ MORE
A new paper in Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology by our lab members!
Drawing on the Significance Quest Theory (Kruglanski et al., 2022), the authors used the Honor Dictionary (Gelfand et al., 2015) in a word frequency textual analysis (Pennebaker et al., 2007) to investigate extreme... READ MORE