Thank you for attending Kraków Small Group Meeting on Cognitive Consistency!
The meeting aimed to deepen the understanding of cognitive consistency—a fundamental concept in social psychology.
Key discussion themes included:
- Whether cognitive consistency is an intrinsic goal or a means to another goal.
- Determinants of how strongly individuals experience inconsistency.
- Emotional reactions to expectancy violations—whether always negative or occasionally positive.
- Moderators (individual traits, contextual factors) influencing responses to inconsistency.
- Underlying neuropsychological processes triggered by mismatched expectations
It was hosted at the Institute of Psychology in Kraków (Ingardena Street 6), from May 20–22, 2016.
The meeting featured prominent keynote presenters including:
- Cindy Harmon‑Jones (UNSW)
- Arie Kruglanski (UMD)
- Andrzej Nowak (Florida Atlantic & University of Warsaw)
- Travis Proulx (Tilburg)
- Bill Swann (UT Austin)
- Piotr Winkielman (UC San Diego)
- Bogdan Wojciszke (University of Sopot)
- Rex Wright (UNT)
The event was organized by the Centre for Social Cognitive Studies with honorary patronage from Jagiellonian University’s Rector and supported by CSCS, SWPS, NCN, and other academic sponsors.
By convening a select group of psychologists, the Kraków meeting fostered rich theoretical and empirical discussions aimed at clarifying enduring questions about cognitive consistency—from its motivational dynamics to its neural underpinnings.
See the website of the Small Group Meeting here: https://cscs.edu.pl/small-group-meeting-on-cognitive-consistency/
