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
We highly recommend a new paper by Gabriela Czarnek and Małgorzata Kossowska from our Centre. In the article, our colleagues analyzed the effects of needs for security and certainty (NSC) on economic beliefs and they suggested that these relationships are … Continued
We are happy to share a new paper entitled “On the psychology of extremism: How motivational imbalance breeds intemperance” in which the authors present a psychological model of extremism based on the concept of motivational imbalance. According to the model, … Continued
We are very happy to announce that Marcin Bukowski from our Centre was awarded with a scholarship in the prestigious Bekker Programme and will start a research stay at The University of Toronto, Canada. The title of his project is … Continued
Ewa Szumowska from our Centre talks about the background and common aspects of various extreme behaviors. We recommend a very interesting article on the Science in Poland portal (in Polish language only). We also recommend the related, new paper co-authored … Continued
Best wishes to our Friends and Collaborators!
An interesting interview with the members of our lab in ‘Polityka’. Małgorzata Kossowska, Gabriela Czarnek, and Paulina Szwed talk about their research on the relations between political views, education, and climate change beliefs as well as knowledge formation and political … Continued
Given the high level of political polarization, it is important to understand how ideology might affect empathy toward political opponents. In the research by Samantha Stevens, Carl Jago, Katarzyna Jasko from CSCS, and Gail Heyman, participants read about a hypothetical … Continued
We are proud to share that Ewa Szumowska from our lab received the OPUS grant from the National Science Centre! The project is titled ‘Balance Model of Goal Switching: From Multitasking to Extremism’ and you may read its description in … Continued
Gabriela Czarnek from our Centre together with Michael Richter and Paweł Strojny published a paper in Psychophysiology! The goals of this research were to analyze cardiac sympathetic recovery patterns and evaluate whether sympathetic cardiac responses to a task challenge can … Continued