This month Rex Wright, Professor of Psychology at the University of North Texas, is visiting our Centre. During his stay prof. Wright is conducting several workshops: on The Nature of Love (11-12.10), Motives to Help and Harm (15-16.10) and Fatigue and … 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
We are happy to inform you that Gabriela Czarnek and Piotr Dragon from our Lab won 2018 Solomon Asch Award for the best paper by young researchers published in Social Psychological Bulletin (Psychologia Społeczna). More to be found at: https://spb.psychopen.eu/about#SolomonAschAward Congratulations!
What is the reason for growing support for the extreme right-wing parties in many countries of the world? Where does the distrust in democracy and international integration come from? Traditional explanations referring to the socio-economic factors, religiosity, or private beliefs … Continued
We are happy to invite you to lectures and workshops conducted by our guest – prof. Ying-Yi Hong (Chinese University of Hong Kong)! Professor’s main interests are concentrated on culture and cognition, identity in intercultural approach and on intergroup relations. … Continued
We are happy to announce that Ewa Szumowska from our Centre recently received the research grant from National Science Centre! Full name of the project is “Self-verification in the context of epistemic motivation”. Previous studies showed that people tend to … Continued
If you’re interested in religious fundamentalism and its cognitive underpinnings we encourage you to read a post about studies on this topic conducted by members of our lab – Małgorzata Kossowska, Paulina Szwed, Gabriela Czarnek and colleagues. Enjoy!
How the process of emotion regulation in powerless groups looks like? Marcin Bukowski from our Centre together with colleagues from Spain, Chile, and the Netherlands tried to answer this question in their studies published lately in ‘Polish Psychological Bulletin’. The … Continued
How religious fundamentalism works on the level of basic, neural reactions? – researchers from our Centre together with collaborators shed some light on this complex problem. In the EEG study they found that among people intolerant to uncertainty (those with … Continued
How touch is perceived in social dyadic interactions, depending on its temporal features (initiation / reciprocity of touch) and more or less formal character? These interesting questions were asked and answered in work of Maciek Sekerdej from our Centre and … Continued