Longitudinal data show how liberal voters became a...

On how the liberal electorate got alienated during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland....

Sexism in times of pandemic

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, another tendency seems to spread like contagion—populist leaders mobilising to use the existing emergency to...

Understanding populism: Collective narcissism and ...

I recently had the pleasure to co-write a book chapter with Professor Joseph P. Forgas (University of New South Wales). In the chapter titled Understa...

Reactions to the reminders of the past transgressi...

By publishing his accounts of Polish crimes against Polish Jews during the Second World War, Jan Thomas Gross started a difficult discussion over the ...

3-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. ...

Why collective narcissism and in-group satisfactio...

In our recently published paper (Dyduch-Hazar, Mrozinski and Golec de Zavala, 2019), we investigated why collective narcissism and in-group satisfacti...

Mental 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...

Low self-esteem predicts outgroup derogation indir...

In a recent paper we revisited the proposition that low self-esteem motivates group members to derogate out-groups. Several theoretical accounts pred...

ISPP 2019: The sources of and remedies to intergro...

Previous research showed that collective narcissism is related to a hypersensitivity to not only real, but also merely perceived threat coming from ot...

ISPP 2019: Beliefs about own group, hedonistic fun...

Collective narcissism and in-group satisfaction are alternative beliefs people may hold about social identities they share (Golec de Zavala, Dyduch-Ha...

Why is collective narcissism so robustly associate...

Conspiracy theories are explanatory beliefs positing that a group of people plots in secret against one and one’s ingroup (van Prooijen & van Lange, 2...

Research Methods Challenges: fMRI

As described in my previous post, I recently had the once in a lifetime opportunity to visit the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sc...