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
‘The Psychology of Tolerance in Times of Uncertainty’ by the members of our Lab is out for sale (in English). Highly recommended! You may check availability >>HERE<<
People often seek new information and eagerly update their beliefs. Other times they avoid information or resist revising their beliefs. What explains those different reactions? Answers to this question often frame information processing as a competition between cognition and motivation. … Continued
A new book of Małgorzata Kossowska, Ewa Szumowska and Paulina Szwed from our lab: ‘The Psychology of Tolerance in Times of Uncertainty’ (‘Tolerancja w czasach niepewności’) has been translated to English and will be available soon. Check details on … Continued
How do we deal with conflicting information in times of Internet? Why people believe in fake news? What’s the role of scientists in shaping knowledge nowadays? – watch an interview with Małgorzata Kossowska, the head of our lab, for Copernicus … Continued
We are happy to open the Science First series – an initiative to promote psychological knowledge and its application by ‘All in UJ’. Join us to discuss about tolerance with the authors of newly publish book on the subject, our … Continued
A new article by our colleagues in European Journal of Social Psychology! Maciek Sekerdej together with Małgorzata Kossowska and Aneta Czernatowicz-Kukuczka from our Centre recently published a paper on the relationship between epistemic motivation and intergroup perception (mediated through the … Continued
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