📢 Postdoc Opportunity! Join Jagiellonian Univ. (Kraków) as a Post-doctoral Researcher in Social Psychology (4-year NCN-funded project on global crises & collective action). 🗓 Deadline: 27 Aug 2025 🔗 easp.eu/job-offers/itm/post_doctoral_researcher_positio-2107.html

The 48th ISPP Meeting in Prague—one of the top conferences in political psych—featured strong representation from Jagiellonian University, with several presenters from our lab! 🔹 27 paper presentations 🔹 1 blitz talk 🔹 6 poster sessions Proud of everyone who contributed and represented us so well!

📢 New publication in PSPB! We tracked Poles over 3 waves to examine how closeness to Ukrainian refugees and threat perceptions shape each other. Feeling closer reduced both threat types—but only realistic threat (e.g. jobs, services) predicted less closeness over time. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0146...

This year, we held 27 meetings with 28 speakers from global universities across various disciplines. Researchers from all seven Lab groups shared their work, alongside many external guests who offered valuable insights. See you next year!

This Wed, join BiC Lab’s open talk with Halime Ünver Aba: After the Earthquake: How Disaster & Media Shaped Turkey’s Refugee Debate? The study reveals how face-to-face contact and media narratives compete to shape empathy, fear, and social cohesion. MS Teams link below ->

Tomorrow, Erica Molinario will give a talk on how our fundamental need to feel significant, whether fulfilled or frustrated, plays a crucial role in shaping migration decisions. Join us to explore how these insights could change the way we think about migration today! link below

On May 30, we held the Annual Meeting of Behaviour in Crisis Lab: "Facing Crisis: Preparedness and Social Response." With three panels, expert talks, and engaging discussions, we explored how to empower vulnerable groups and strengthen societal responses to crises. Thank you to all involved!

Such a joy to chair the migration crisis panel at @UJ_BCrisisLab’s annual meeting! Grateful to amazing panelists Ewa Szumoswska, Jan Brozowski, Marek Palace & Yuliia Lesyshak (we missed Ewa Morlinaro!) for sharing their research, policy takeaways and insights 🌍✨

We will be hosting Anna Kende (Eötvös Loránd University) for our next meeting! This talk will build on critique of research focusing primarily on prejudice reduction among advantaged group members, and on the distinction between social change oriented vs. benevolent allyship.

What shapes how groups remember their shared past? Find out at our open lab meeting with guest speaker, Professor Nurit Shnabel this Wednesday! Online: Join via Microsoft Teams teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

Today, our lab member Dr. Anna Potoczek presented her research “Why and When Extremists Win: The Appeal of Radical Political Candidates”—a timely and thought-provoking talk featuring a series of well-designed experiments. Great work, Anna! 👏

We are pleased to inform you that the the fifth edition of the Behaviour in Crisis Lab Newsletter is now ready and available for you to read: Newsletter in English: becrilab.id.uj.edu.pl/documents/15... Newsletter in Polish: becrilab.id.uj.edu.pl/documents/15...

BiC Conference Panels Preview below It’s open to all—just register by May 10th! umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_... Faculty of International and Political Studies, Kraków May 30, 2025 9:00–17:30 #FacingCrisis #Migration #Politics #InvisibleChildren #Science #SocialChange

Krys Kaniasty and Stefano Pagliaro will join us in Kraków for the Behaviour in Crisis Lab Annual Meeting: Facing Crisis – Preparedness and Social Response. 📅 May 30, 2025 | 9:00–17:30 Join us! 📝 Free participation, registration required by May 10: umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_...

Join our upcoming open meeting on how young people build financial resilience in uncertain times. 🎙️ Guest: Dr. Žan Lep (Univ. of Ljubljana) 🗓️ Topic: Financial socialisation, literacy & well-being 📍 Room 5.01, Inst. of Psychology, JU All welcome!

We’re excited to invite you to the next open meeting of the Behaviour in Crisis Lab! Zafer Özkan, PhD, our lab member, will share findings from a three-wave study on how closeness to Ukrainian war refugees shapes and is shaped by perceptions of intergroup threats. Room 5.01, Institute of Psychology

📢 Join us for the first in-person seminar of Badaczki & Badacze w czasach kryzysów! 📍 Instytut Pedagogiki UJ 📅 April 11 | 🕙 10:00 AM 🎯 Topic: Methodology & Ethics in Research with Children 💬 Inspiring speakers, young experts, big questions. See you there!

🎙️ Can we really prepare for war — and if so, how? On @RadioKrakow, Ewa Szumowska & Maciej Pilecki dive into how crises reshape our sense of safety, and why community may be our best response to fear. Listen here: www.radiokrakow.pl/audycje/czy-...

🚨 Save the date! On Friday, 30 May 2025, the Behavior in Crisis Lab will host its Annual Meeting at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. This year’s theme: “Facing Crisis: Preparedness and Social Response” 👉 Please register by Saturday, 10 May 2025 umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_...

Excited to welcome Paulina Górska! Discover which emotions sustained long-term support for Ukrainian refugees and which ones faded fast.. Whether you're into social psychology, activism, or just want to understand why we help others, and when we stop, join us this Wednesday at 3pm to find out more!

New Publications Alert! 📝🎉 Our lab members have contributed to two recent studies. Read them here: @tgkinopoulos.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today, Karolina Bonarska presented their research on the fear of being single and its impact on extreme romantic partner-seeking behaviors.

💡 Can digital platforms make us better employees—or just more stressed? Join us on March 19, 2025, as Professor Wojciech Czakon explores how workplace digital tools impact engagement, productivity, and behavior.

This week we are hosting Prof. Aleksandra Gruszka-Gosiewska. She is presenting us their projects on Vulnerability of Young People Entering Adulthood to Polycrisis: The Role of Personality Traits, Emotion Regulation and Social Context.

We’re delighted to host Stefano Pagliaro from the University of Chieti-Pescara in our lab! Yesterday, he gave an engaging talk on "The Centrality of Morality in Group Processes: A Social Identity Approach." Grateful for the insightful discussion!

This week, we are excited to welcome Małgorzata Michel and Agnieszka Gabriel to our weekly lab meeting. They are presenting their research on "The Specifics of Streetworkers' Work with Street Children in Poland: A Research Report." Looking forward to an insightful discussion!

We’re thrilled to announce that the Behaviour in Crisis Lab is an official co-organizer of the upcoming SPSP Preconference with Society for Personality and Social Psychology!

Exciting News from BiC! We’re thrilled to share some incredible updates about the research achievements of our team: 1. Our team members, including Ewa Szumowska, Gabriela Czarnek, and Theofilos Gkinopoulos, contributed to two groundbreaking papers as part of the global project

We’re excited to invite you to the next open meeting of the BiC – Behaviour in Crisis Lab! Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Nóra Lantos Topic: Politicized, Moral, and Personal Motivations of Refugee Helpers in the Context of the War in Ukraine Where? On-site: Room 5.01.

This new paper is a huge contribution to nowadays discourse about why we spread misinformation. Read the four-study publication co-authored by Malgorzata Kossowska www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join us as we explore fascinating insights into collective behaviour during crises and the crucial role of fieldwork in post-disaster support. This week, we are welcoming Dr. Selin Tekin from University of New York Tirana. Where? On-site: Room 5.01, Institute of Psychology.

Professor Małgorzata Michel and Professor Paweł Rudnicki discussed what scientists should consider while conducting studies in the very special context of policrisis. The full talk is available here: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

📢 We’re thrilled to share some exciting news! Our research and recommendations have contributed to key policy proposals aimed at strengthening Poland’s social welfare system to better respond to crises! 📄 You can read the full document here:�➡️ federacja-socjalnych.pl/images/PDF/3...

It was a pleasure to host Michał Bilewicz from the University of Warsaw at our weekly meeting. He presented research on intolerance of uncertainty, discrimination, PTSD among Ukrainian war refugees, and the role of acculturation stress in the impact of ethnic slurs on Ukrainians' mental health.

📆 Thursday on the 9th of January you can join us online 🖥️ Professor Małgorzata Michel and Professor Paweł Rudnicki will discuss what scientists should consider while conducting studies in the very special context of policrisis. See you there! teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...

🎉 New Publication from our lab member @zafman90.bsky.social! 🎉 This study examines how belief systems—free will, fatalistic determinism, and scientific determinism—relate to protest intentions after the 2023 Türkiye earthquakes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We have weekly meetings every Wednesday. For the last meeting of this semester, Laurent Beaupoil from Prof. Michał Kuniecki team gave a talk on "What looks fake and what doesn't: a first view into individual differences and photographic contents modifying authenticity perception.".

📢 New research Based on three waves of data during the Ukrainian refugee crisis, we found: 🔹 Helping refugees meets psychological needs. 🔹 Lowers perceived refugee threats. 🔹 Increases fear about the potential impact of the war Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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