About PrejudiceLab
We are an interdisciplinary research team of social psychologists, neuropsychologists and psychophysiologists. We work on topics related to collective narcissism, prejudice and intergroup conflicts, as well as other issues associated with intergroup relations. Our mission is to apply psychological insights to real-world problems, such as intergroup conflicts, intergroup exclusion or political radicalization.
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Our recent article Low self-esteem predicts out-group derogation via collective narcissism, but this relationship is obscured by in-group satisfaction is finally available online!
Read the articleResearch Grant Preludium 17 for our PhD Student
Our PhD Student Karolina Dyduch-Hazar received a prestigious Preludium Research Grant financed by National Science Center for the research project Is revenge "sweet"? Examining the role of anticipated pleasure from revenge on retaliatory behavior . Congratulations!
Dr Golec de Zavala gave a talk at University of Cambridge
Dr Agnieszka Golec de Zavala gave a talk Collective narcissism: Self-esteem invested in the in-group image or social identity organized around frustrated self-importance at University of Cambridge. The talk was based on our recent article published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Read the articleKarolina Dyduch-Hazar was nominated for Fullbright Junior Research Award 2020/2021
Our PhD Student Karolina Dyduch-Hazar received a nomination to the prestigious Fullbright Junior Research Award 2020/2021 for visiting Social Psychology and Neuroscience Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Congratulations!
Article published in Frontiers in Psychology
Head of PrejudiceLab Agnieszka Golec de Zavala have published an article Collective narcissism and in-group satisfaction are associated with different emotional profiles and well-being . Congratulations!
Read the articleNew article published in Political Psychology
Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, Karolina Dyduch-Hazar and Dorottya Lantos have just published their systematic review on collective narcissism in Advances in Political Psychology. This review is the very latest summary of knowledge on collective narcissism.
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Dr Agnieszka Golec de Zavala
Head of PrejudiceLab
Reader, Goldsmith, University of London, United Kingdom; University Professor, University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Poznan, Poland; Visiting Professor, ISCTE-CIS, Lisbon, Portugal.
Mindful gratitude meditation as an intervention to address collective narcissists hostility in the face of intergroup exclusion
This project examines whether mindful gratitude meditation - the practice of grateful appreciation of the present moment – reduces aggression among people who use aggression to retaliate to exclusion in intergroup relations i.e. collective narcissists.
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Student visited PrejudiceLab in London
We had the pleasure of hosting Sarah, a 6th form student from Lycée Français Charles De Gaulle De Londres School in London, for several days of job sh...
Read more3-item version of Collective Narcissism Scale
We aimed at shortening the scale from five to three items by conducting IRT analyses on Polish, German and Turkish sample.
Read moreDr Golec de Zavala at Society for Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) annual conference in Toronto
I will give a talk Collective narcissism: Political consequences of investing self-esteem in the in-group image during annual conference of Society fo...
Read moreXVI Congress of Polish Society of Social Psychology in Poznan
A panel session Predictors of tolerance toward otherness at 16th Congress of Polish Society of Social Psychology, September 20-22 in Poznan, Poland.
Read moreWhy collective narcissism and in-group satisfaction predict opposite attitudes toward refugess in Poland?
In our recently published paper (Dyduch-Hazar, Mrozinski and Golec de Zavala, 2019), we investigated why collective narcissism and in-group satisfacti...
Read moreMental time travel and right-wing ideology
Mental time travel involves the ability to reflect on the past, look towards the future, and foster up imaginative alternate realities (Epstude & Peet...
Read more42nd Annual Meeting of International Society of Political Psychology in Lisbon
We had the pleasure of delivering a symposium, “National collective narcissism: vengeful hostility towards minorities and ambivalence towards the Euro...
Read moreLow self-esteem predicts outgroup derogation indirectly via collective narcissism
In a recent paper we revisited the proposition that low self-esteem motivates group members to derogate out-groups. Several theoretical accounts pred...
Read moreISPP 2019: The sources of and remedies to intergroup hostility stemming from collective narcissism
Previous research showed that collective narcissism is related to a hypersensitivity to not only real, but also merely perceived threat coming from ot...
Read moreAustralasian Society for Social and Affective Neuroscience 6th Annual Meeting
I had the pleasure of attending this year’s annual meeting of the Australasian Society for Social and Affective Neuroscience (AS4SAN).
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