We are glad to share with that Anna Potoczek from our lab has recently defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘The impact of lack of control on norm perception and conformity’. The thesis was written under the supervision of Marcin Bukowski … Continued
A new book on the psychology of extremism edited by Arie W. Kruglanski, Catalina Kopetz, and Ewa Szumowska published by Rourledge! In popular discourse, the term ‘extremism’ has come to mean largely ‘violent extremism’, but this is just one of … Continued
A new project entitled “Inclusivity Norms to Counter Polarization in European Societies (INCLUSIVITY)” funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung as part of the Challenges for Europe scheme will be performed in collaboration between our lab member – Marcin Bukowski and researchers from Osnabrück University, Utrecht … Continued
Resistance to granting refugee status to individuals often originates in the belief that the influx of refugees endangers national security because of the presumably extremist ideological beliefs refugees hold. The popularity of such narratives says more about the psychology of … Continued
A new paper by the members of our lab! Małgorzata Kossowska, Paulina Szwed, and Gabriela Czarnek have described a series of three studies, in which they examined the link between ideology, trust in scientists, and attitudes toward vaccines. They found … Continued
We are happy to share two recordings of interesting talks by our Head, prof. Małgorzata Kossowska. She was recently invited to comment on knowledge resistance at Wrocław University of Science and Technology [recording >>HERE<<] resilience to vaccinate at Copernicus Science Centre [recording … Continued
A new paper in Motivation and Emotion authored by Paulina Szwed, Małgorzata Kossowska, and Marcin Bukowski from our Centre is already published! Authors tested the effort pattern under uncontrollability situations for individuals with different level of uncertainty tolerance. They found … Continued
Today we present a new book by Małgorzata Kossowska from our lab, co-authored by Natalia Letki, Tomasz Zaleśkiewicz and Szymon Wichary. “Człowiek w obliczu pandemii” [eng. Man facing a pandemic] offers a psychological insight into various aspects of the current … Continued
Małgorzata Kossowska from our Centre talks about people’s behavior in the current pandemic situation. We highly recommend this interview for Gazeta Wyborcza (available in Polish language). You can read it >>HERE<<
How to make science more open and transparent? We will find out about it by listening to the podcast “Open Science”, created by a member of our Centre, Katarzyna Jaśko together with Bartosz Janik from the University of Silesia. The … Continued