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Publikacje naukowe - Behaviour in Crisis Lab

  1. Kossowska, M., Letki, N., Zaleśkiewicz, T. & Wichary, S. (2022). Facing pandemics: Social and psychological determinants of behaviour under global health crisis. London: Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781003254133
  2. Kossowska, M., Letki, N., Zaleśkiewicz, T., Wichary, S. (2020). Człowiek w obliczu pandemii. Sopot: Smak Słowa.
  3. Kossowska, M., Szumowska, E., Szwed, P. (2018). Tolerancja w czasach niepewności. Sopot: Smak Słowa. / tłumaczenie: Kossowska, M., Szumowska, E., Szwed, P. (2020). The Psychology of Tolerance in Times of Uncertainty. London Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9780367821487

  1. Bonarska K., Cacek J., Kossowska M., Szumowska E. (2026). Navigating Uncertainty: Cognitive Closure, Information Processing, Epistemic Authority in the Pursuit of Knowledge. In: Vail K.E. III, Van Tongeren D.R., Schlegel R.J., Greenberg J., King L.A., Ryan R.M. (eds.), Handbook of the Science of Existential Psychology. Guilford Press. https://www.guilford.com/books/Handbook-of-the-Science-of-Existential-Psychology/Vail-Tongeren-Schlegel-Greenberg/9781462560226
  2. Cakal, H., Nadhmi, F., Chauhan, A., Özkan, Z., Dixon, J., & van Zomeren, M. (2025). The power in numbers (PIN) hypothesis: How common ingroup identities motivate collective action among groups that face violent existential threats. In The Social and Political Psychology of Protest Across and Within Cultures (pp. 158-178). Routledge.
  3. Molinario, E., Kruglanski, A.W., Webber, D., Jasko, K. (2024). Quest for significance and violent extremism., Eds Milan Obaidi & Jonas R. Kunst. In Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism. Cambridge University Press 2025. doi.org/10.1017/9781009407892
  4. Kaszynski, H., & Melnyk, K. (2024). Shaping the professional competence of social work students in the field of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Poland. In Y. Latzer, & L. Shklarski (Eds.). Social Work Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic: International Insights toward Innovation and Creativity (pp. 150-165). Routledge Research in Education.
  5. Kossowska, M., Czarnek, G., Szumowska, E., & Szwed, P. (2022). Striving for Certainty: Epistemic Motivations and (Un) Biased Cognition. In Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments (pp. 207-221). London: Routledge.
  6. Rabb, N., Kossowska, M., Wood, T. J., Schulte, D., Vourloumis, S., & Jarke, H. (2022). Responsiveness to Evidence: A Political Cognition Approach 1. In Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments (pp. 128-147). London: Routledge.

  1. Luo, W., Gkinopoulos, T., Kossowska, M., & Guinote, A. (2026). Moral liberty is associated with endorsement and online dissemination of climate change conspiracy theories. Environmental Psychology Research, 1, e70020. https://doi.org/10.1002/epr2.70020
  2. Kossowska, M., G. Czarnek, A. Knorr, P. Szwed, and A. Andrysiak. 2026. The Ideological Boundary of Belief Change. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70110
  3. Growiec, K., & Szumowska, E. (2026). Need for cognitive closure predicts preference for similar others and reduced diversity in social networks. Scientific Reports, 16, Article 5582. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-36288-6
  4. Kaszyński, H. (2026). Reinstytucjonalizacja pomocy społecznej i pracy socjalnej. Praca Socjalna. https://doi.org/10.71358/ps.2115
  5. Molinario, E., Elster, A., Dudek, I., Jaśko, K., Webber, D., Szumowska, E., Leander, N. P., Agostini, M., Kreienkamp, J., Sensales, G., Di Cicco, G., Jaume, L. C., Ellenberg, M., Wollschläger, D., Kruglanski, A. W., et al. (2026). Striving for Significance: Development and Validation of the Desire for Significance Scale. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70109
  6. Kossowska, M., Czarnek, G., Szwed, P., Andrysiak, A., & Knorr, A. (2025). Rigidity at the margins: The ideological boundaries of belief change [Preprint]. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5391011
  7. Gorostiza-Cervi.o, A., Kossowska, M., Rodriguez, R., Cavas, S., Gołąb, M., Bonarska, K., & Di Cicco, G. (2025). 3NMark: A psychologist-annotated Twitter corpus on migration for 3N model analysis in Spanish and Polish. In Z. Vetulani, P. Paroubek, & I. Kardava (Eds.), Human language technologies as a challenge for computer science and linguistics – 2025 (pp. 27–31). Adam Mickiewicz University Press.
    https://doi.org/10.14746/amup.9788323245414.5
  8. Blum, A., Czarnek, G., Berinsky, A.J. et al. After the Takeover: Rebuilding Trust in Public Media Through Institutional Reform. Polit Behav (2026). doi.org/10.1007/s11109-026-10127-w
  9. Tyner, A.H., Abatayo, A.L., Daley, M. et al. Investigating the replicability of the social and behavioural sciences. Nature 652, 143–150 (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-10078-y
  10. Mužík, M., Knorr, A., Kossowska, M. (2026).  The (not so) vicious cycle of national narcissism: emotional antecedents and outcomes. Journal of Research in Personality, 122, 104721. doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2026.104721
  11. Kossowska, M., Szwed, P., Czarnek, G., Honcharowa, S., Domagalik, A., Doradzińska, Ł. (2026). Neural correlates of belief change in political and non-political domains among left-wing individuals confronted with counterarguments. Scientific Reports, 16, Article 35397. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-35397-6
  12. Lin, H., Czarnek, G., Lewis, B., White, J, P., Berinsky, A, J., Costello, A., Pennycook, G., Rand, G, D. (2025). Persuading voters using human–artificial intelligence dialogues. Nature. doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09771-9
  13. Knorr, A. & Kossowska, M. (2026). Understanding Extremism:  A Cognitive-Motivational Perspective. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression.
  14. Rupar, M., Doroszuk, M., Kossowska, M. (accepted). Emotional Similarity Between Immigrants and Host Societies: The Link to Intergroup Relations and Well-Being. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
  15. Gkinopoulos, T., Kossowska, M., Walther, E. (2025). A community of „unknowledge”: A social-psychological model of the self-reinforcing cycle of social identity-driven willful ignorance and conspiracy beliefs. Current Opinion in Psychology, 67, 102193. doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102193
  16. Czarnek, G., Hornsey, M., Bucki, S., & Kossowska, M. (2025). As countries become more affluent, climate change attitudes are more politically polarised. Journal of Environmental Psychology. doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102579
  17. Dragon, P., Holland, R., Szumowska, E., Kossowska, M., Wigboldus, D. (2025) Explaining the relationship between Agency and Communion by means of Lay Personality Theories and Connectionist Modelling. Social Cognition. doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/g847b
  18. Kłodkowski, P., Kossowska, M., & Siewierska, A. (2025). (Micro)Identities in Flux: The Interplay of Polarization and Fragmentation in Polish and European Politics. Social Inclusion, 13, Article 9996. doi.org/10.17645/si.9996
  19. Melita, D., Kossowska, M., Dragon, P., Moyano, M., Gołąb, M., Andrysiak, A., & Rodríguez, R. (2025). Two Sources of Alienation from Society: The Role of Economic Relative Deprivation, Anti-Mainstream Identities, and Perceived Ingroup Injustice. Social Indicators Research, 1-29. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-025-03687-7
  20. Palace, M., Szwejka, L., Kossowska, M., May, B., Tretyakova, Y., Karolczak, A., Strojny, P., Gurbisz, D., Besta, T., Cherkas, N., Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz, B., Smith, L., Bokszczanin, A., Adams Tukiendorf, M., Jiang, W., & Raj, A. (2025). Does escaping a war zone feel worse than being there? War and coping by Ukrainian civilians in Ukraine and Poland. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1037/tra0001942
  21. Knorr, A., Podolin, N., Di Cicco, G., & Kossowska, M. (2025). Integrating insights into radicalization: A text‐mining systematic review. Political Psychology. doi.org/10.1111/pops.70070
  22. Özkan, Z., Kossowska, M., Szumowska, E., Perek-Białas, J., & Szwed, P. (2026). Emotional foundations of refugee policy support: The role of threats and emotions towards refugees. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 110, 102326. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102326
  23. Özkan, Z., Kossowska, M., Szumowska, E., Perek-Białas, J., & Szwed, P. (2025). Threat Perceptions and Closeness to Refugees: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 01461672251352899. doi.org/10.1177/01461672251352899
  24. Özkan, Z., El‐Astal, S., & Cakal, H. (2025). Paths to peaceful and violent action: Identity fusion and group identification. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64(3), e70002. doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70002
  25. Özkan, Z. (2024). Understanding protest intentions: The influence of belief systems post-earthquake tragedies. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 115, 105031. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.105031
  26. Uskul, A. K., Hanel, P. H. P., Kirchner-Häusler, A., Vignoles, V. L., Jin, S., Rodriguez-Bailón, R., Castillo, V. A., Cross, S. E., Gezici Yalçın, M., Harb, C., Husnu, S., Ishii, K., Karamaouna, P., Kafetsios, K., Kateri, E., Matamoros-Lima, J., Miniesy, R., Na, J., Özkan, Z., . . . Uchida, Y. (2025). Differences and similarities in psychological characteristics between cultural groups circum Mediterranean. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 129(1), 1–19. doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000434
  27. Guinote, A., Kossowska, M., Jago, M., Idenekpoma, S., Biddlestone, M. (2024). Why do People Share (Mis)Information? Power Motives in Social Media. Computers in Human Behavior, doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108453
  28. Palace, M. May, B., Shortland, N., Brown, W., Mcllroy, D., Madan, M., Bokszczanin, A., Gurbisz, D., Daly, S., Hansen, L., Tripathi., R., Harjai., D., Ingale, S., Gladysz, O. (2025). In Weapons We Trust? Four-culture analysis of factors associated with weapon tolerance in young males. PlosOne. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0317182
  29. Kossowska, M., Chan, H.-W., Hong, Y. Y., & Szumowska, E. (2024). Longitudinal effects of helping war refugees on intergroup threat and fear of war: The role of perceived helping functionality. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/13684302241297927
  30. Borinca, I., Sainz-Martinez, M., & Gkinopoulos, T. (in press). Social Norms and Peace: Introduction to the Special Issue. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. doi.org/10.1037/pac0000761
  31. Pummerer, L., Gkinopoulos, T., Douglas, K., Jolley, D., & Sassenberg, K. (in press). The Emotion Model of Conspiracy Theories (EMCT): Distinguishing four prototypes of emotional reactions to conspiracy theories. Psychological Inquiry. doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2024.2442906
  32. Kossowska, M., Szumowska, E, Szwed, P., & Czernatowicz-Kukuczka, A. (2024). Unraveling Uncertainty: Exploring Cognitive Closure, Information Processing, and the Multifaceted Nature of Certainty Motivation in the Tapestry of Beliefs and Ideologies. Psychology Hub [in press]  DOI: 10.13133/2724-2943/18367
  33. Kałwak, W., Weziak-Bialowolska, D., Wendołowska, A., Bonarska, K., Sitnik-Warchulska, K., Bańbura, A., Czyżowska, D., Gruszka, A., Opoczyńska-Morasiewicz, M., & Izydorczyk, B. (2024). Young adults from disadvantaged groups experience more stress and deterioration in mental health associated with polycrisis. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 8757. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59325-8
  34. Molinario, E., Di Cicco, G., Prislei, L., Sensales, G. (2024). Navigating Uncertainty: How War and COVID-19 threats shape populist sentiment through need for cognitive closure. Psychology Hub [in press]
  35. Pica, G., Jaume, L. C., Rullo, M., Molinario, E., Lo Destro, C.,   Visintin, E. P. (2024). Conspiring under threats! An investigation of associations between COVID-19 health and economic threats and conspiracy beliefs in Italy and Argentina. International Journal of Psychology. doi.org/10.1002/ijop.13128
  36. Strömbäck, J., Broda, E., Tsfati, Y., Kossowska, M., & Vliegenthart, R. (2024). Disentangling the relationship between conspiracy mindset versus beliefs in specific conspiracy theories. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 232(1), 18–25. doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000546
  37. Vlasceanu, M., Doell, K. C., Bak-Coleman, J. B., Todorova, B., Berkebile-Weinberg, M. M., Grayson, S. J., ... & Lutz, A. E. (2024). Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries. Science advances, 10(6). doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj5778
  38. Kossowska, M., Szwed, P., Czernatowicz‐Kukuczka, A., Perek Białas, J., Szumowska, E., Kruglanski, A. W., ... & Załuski, W. (2024). Socio‐psychological barriers preventing people from helping in times of crisis: A scoping review. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 34(2), e2775. doi.org/10.1002/casp.2775
  39. Czarnek, G., & Kossowska, M. (2024). Strong correlational but no causal evidence on the link between the perception of scientific consensus and support for vaccination. PLoS ONE, 19(1), e0296066. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296066
  40. Opozda- Suder S., Łopatkiewicz A. & Michel M., (2024), The Activism and Radicalism Intention Scales (ARIS) as a Measure of Political Mobilization: Verification of Factor Structure and Invariance across Gender in a Sample of Polish Academic Youth. Terrorism and Political Violence. 0(0), 1–20. doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2024.2308795
  41. Kossowska, M.,  Szwed, P.,  Czernatowicz-Kukuczka, A.,  Perek-Białas, J.,  Szumowska, E.,  Kruglanski, A. W., Gadowska, K.,  Kamińska, M., &  Załuski, W. (2024).  Socio-psychological barriers preventing people from helping in times of crisis: A scoping review. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 34(2), e2775. doi.org/10.1002/casp.2775
  42. Kossowska, M., Kłodkowski, P., Siewierska-Chmaj, A., Guinote, A., Kessels, U., Moyano, M., & Strömbäck, J. (2023). Internet-based micro-identities as a driver of societal disintegration. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10(1), Article 1. doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02441-z
  43. Kossowska, M., Perek-Białas, J., Blukacz, M., Szwed, P., Szumowska, E, & Czernatowicz-Kukuczka, A. (2023). Dynamic of mass mobilizations for helping war refugees:  The role of fear, closeness, and norms. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28249-0
  44. Palace, M., Zamazii, O., Terbeck, S., Bokszczanin, A., Berezovski, T., Gurbisz, D., & Szwejka, Ł. (2023). Mapping the factors behind ongoing war stress in Ukraine-based young civilian adults. Applied Psychology and Well-Being. doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12493
  45. Kossowska, M., Szwed, P., Szumowska, E. et al. The role of fear, closeness, and norms in shaping help towards war refugees. Sci Rep 13, 1465 (2023). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28249-0
  46. Kossowska, M., Szwed, P., Szumowska, E., Perek-Białas, J., & Czernatowicz-Kukuczka, A. (2022). Humanitarian responses to global emergencies: The context of Ukrainian war refugees in Poland. Scientific Reports doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1816073/v1
  47. Kłodkowski, P., & Kossowska, M. Siewierska-Chmaj, A., (2022). Dlaczego digitalizacja może stać się przyczyną anarchizacji. Studia Polityczne, 50(2), 37-65. doi.org/10.35757/STP.2022.50.2.02
  48. Potoczek, A., Bukowski, M., Jasko, K., Czepluch, F., Fritsche, I., Jugert, P., & Kossowska, M. (2022). Acting collectively against air pollution: When does control threat mobilize environmental activism? Registered report. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 102, 104352. doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104352
  49. Buchanan, E. M., Lewis, S. et al., (2022). PSACR: The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 Rapid-response Dataset. Nature Scientific Data.
  50. Dorison, C. A., Lerner, J. S., Heller, B. H., Rothman, A. J., Kawachi, I. I., Wang, K., ... & Pantazi, M. (2022). In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: Experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective science, 3(3), 577-602. doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00128-3
  51. Legate, N., Ngyuen, T. V., Weinstein, N., Moller, A., Legault, L., Vally, Z., ... & Ogbonnaya, C. E. (2022). A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(22). doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2111091119
  52. Kossowska, M., Szwed, P., Czarnek, G. (2022). The role of political ideology and open-minded thinking style in (in)accuracy of factual beliefs. Political Behavior, 23:1-21. doi.org/10.1007/s11109-022-09789-z
  53. Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Dorison, C. A., Miller, J. K., Uusberg, A., Lerner, J. S., ... & Štrukelj, E. (2021). A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(8), 1089-1110. doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01173-x
  54. Mazur, L. B., & Sztuka, M. (2021). Hidden harmony: Converging interests in the development of prison reform. Theoretical Criminology, 25(1), 149-168. doi.org/10.1177/1362480619875
  55. Kossowska, M., Szwed, P., Czarnek, G. (2021). Ideology shapes trust in scientists and attitudes towards vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 24(5):720-737. doi.org/10.1177/13684302211001946
  56. Czarnek, G., Kossowska, M. (2021). The Effects of Needs for Security and Certainty on Economic Beliefs: The Role of Political Engagement and the Welfare State model. Social Psychology and Personality Sciences. 12(8):1467-1475. doi.org/10.1177/1948550620977621
  57. Czarnek, G., Kossowska, M. & Szwed, P. (2021). Right-wing ideology reduces the effects of education on climate change beliefs in more developed countries. Nature Climate Change, 11, 9-13. doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-00930-6
  58. Kossowska, M. (2021). Odporni na wiedzę... czyli o zaufaniu i polityce. In: Ewolucja cywilizacyjnej roli i społecznego odbioru nauki (pp. 59-74). Warszawa: Instytut Problemów Współczesnej Cywilizacji im. Marka Dietricha. https://www.ipwc.pw.edu.pl/pliki/IPWC-LXXIV.pdf
  59. Kossowska, M., Szumowska, E., Szwed, P. Czernatowicz-Kukuczka, & Kruglanski, A. (2020). Helping when the desire is low: Expectancy as a booster. Motivation and Emotion,44, 819-831. doi.org/10.1007/s11031-020-09853-3

  1. Kossowska, Małgorzata; Szwed, Paulina; Szumowska, Ewa; Perek-Białas, Jolanta; Czernatowicz-Kukuczka, Aneta, 2023, "Social-Psychological Determinants of Helping War Refugees From Ukraine", doi.org/10.57903/UJ/U7ILNX, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, V1, UNF:6:+CGakGHXuNRmuv5lBj6FlQ== [fileUNF]
  2. Kossowska, M., Guinote, A., Kessels, U., Strömbäck, J., Moyano, M., Melita, D., & Theorin, N. (2024). Digipatch: Moving from network to patchworked society: Panel survey (Wersja V1) [dataset]. Jagiellonian University in Kraków. doi.org/10.57903/UJ/N8M1GY
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