During the meeting Jacek Legierski presented his research proposal on the relationship between cognitive dissonance and rumination and it’s impact on depression. This work will be a part of Jacek’s dissertation.
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 … Continued
On April 26th Gabriela and Paulina showed us a decent bit of their research on attitudes toward outgroups. The presentation was titled “Everybody Dislike Somebody (Sometimes): Value Violation as a Source of Prejudice Toward Groups with Opposing Values” and challenged the traditional … Continued
Last Tuesday during the lab group meeting Gabriela Czarnek presented the results from her studies on the moderating impacy of effort engagement on stereotyping in older age. The presentation made us think about both cognitive and motivational aspects of social … Continued
Global economic crisis – a hot topic of movies and street talks is also a topic of current academic debate. Marcin Bukowski from our Centre together with Soledad de Lemus, Rosa Rodriguez-Bailón and Guillermo B. Willis checked whether blaming outgroups … Continued
During the lab group meeting Piotr Dragon gave presentation titled “Exploring the relation between warmth and competence in social perception: a connectionist modeling approach”. During his talk he presented his recent studies on the computational model of impression formation. Piotrek in … Continued
Can patriotism be simply defined by love to one’s nation? – according to current studies, not necessarily. Maciej Sekerdej from our Centre together with Sonia Roccas from the Open University of Israel published a paper on conventional and constructive patriotism … Continued
Is there one universal reaction to power? According to the new paper by Małgorzata Kossowska, Ana Guinote, and Paweł Strojny published in Motivation & Emotion – there is not, at least when we talk about information processing. It seems that ‘Power … Continued
During the meeting Jacek Legierski presented results from his latest study on the relationship between cognitive dissonance and rumination and it’s impact on depression. We discussed the results, its possible explanation and ideas for future studies. Jacek is planning to … Continued
Ewa Szumowska and Małgorzata Kossowska from our lab published a paper that will be published in Personality and Individual Differences. It is titled ‘Need for closure and multitasking performance: The role of shifting ability’. You can read the paper (full version!) … Continued