The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 triggered a wave of suffering and traumatic experiences among the civilian population. Recent research shows that loneliness and low psychological resilience are key factors increasing the risk of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and reduced quality of life, highlighting the importance of social support and intervention strategies.

Is it really “us” and “them”? Or maybe we are all in this together? We’ve just explored what shaped the mechanisms of helping. But what made these helping behaviors persist over time?

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AI-powered chatbots can genuinely change voters’ attitudes and do so more effectively than traditional political advertising. Even a brief conversation with a language model can shift voting preferences by several percentage points, according to an international study published in Nature with the participation of Dr. Gabriela Czarnek from the Behaviour in Crisis Lab at the Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University.

Dr Gabriela Czarnek’s, a researcher at the Behaviour in Crisis Lab at the Institute of Psychology of Jagiellonian University, article has just been published in Nature – one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world! In the paper “Persuading Voters using Human-AI Dialogues”, an international research team – including Dr Czarnek – shows that even a short conversation with an AI chatbot can shift voters’ preferences, and does so more effectively than traditional political advertising.

Solidarity, one of the fundamental values enshrined in the Treaty on European Union, has gained particular importance over the past decade, as Europe has faced the financial crisis, the migration crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war against Ukraine. A report prepared by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in cooperation with academic partners, including the Jagiellonian University, examines how this key value can be understood and strengthened.