A new article written by Sindhuja Sankaran, Małgorzata Kossowska, and Ulrich von Hecker has been published in Personality and Individual Differences. The present research examined the role of heightened perceived control as a strategy to cope with uncertainty in need for … Continued
A registered report by Anna Potoczek, Macrin Bukowski, Katarzyna Jaśko, and Małgorzata Kossowska from our lab with several collaborators has been published in JESP! Rearch has shown that when control is threatened, people are more likely to turn to groups … Continued
Stypendium dla młodych naukowców / naukowczyń w związku z realizacją projektu pt. „Aktywne radzenie sobie z niekontrolowalnością: Inwestowanie wysiłku poznawczego jako strategia odbudowania kontroli osobowej” finansowanego ze środków Narodowego Centrum Nauki w ramach konkursu OPUS 21. Po więcej informacji zapraszamy >>TUTAJ<< … 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
Some great news to share! Our colleague Marcin Bukowski was awarded with the grant “Impact of lack of control experiences on intergroup relations: The role of coalition formation and recategorization processes” funded by the Polish National Centre for Science. The … Continued
Marcin Bukowski from our Centre, together with colleagues, tested an alternative prediction that the salient lack of personal control (vs. having control) experienced in the context of unemployment can lead to connectedness and more positive perception of similar others (e.g. … Continued
Our sense of control is often lost and regained many times a day. Such fluctuations might influence the way we perceive and categorize the world and other people. In this research, Marcin Bukowski from our Centre and collaborators asked how … Continued
Why do we choose scapegoats – what is so special about them, what mechanism lies behind that process and can we replace it with something else? Marcin Bukowski from our Centre talked to Szymon Łucyk from Tygodnik Powszechny (weekly magazine) … Continued
We are happy to share that Marcin Bukowski from our Centre in cooperation with Immo Fritsche (University of Leipzig), Ana Guinote (University College London) and Mirosław Kofta (University of Warsaw) edited a book in the ‘Current Issues in Social Psychology’ … Continued
Marcin Bukowski (PI) and Katarzyna Jaśko in co-operation with Philipp Jugert (PI) and Immo Fritsche from University of Leipzig were awarded a Beethoven grant from National Science Center on the project: “Threat to Control and Social Norms: Conformity, Change or Formation”. Congratulations! Read … Continued