Malgorzata Kossowska
Malgorzata Kossowska is a Full Professor in Psychology, Head of the Social Psychology Unit and Center for Social Cognitive Studies in the Institute of Psychology at the Jagiellonian University, Vice Dean of the Philosophy faculty at the Jagiellonian University (2012-2015), former Head of the Institute of Psychology at the Jagiellonian University (2008-2012), former President of Polish Association of Social Psychology (2008-2013), and former Vice-President of Society for Terrorism Research.
She has authored over 40 papers published in Polish and international journals (e.g., Political Psychology, Personality & Individual Differences, Journal of Personality, International Journal of Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology, British Journal of Psychology, Cognition & Emotion). She is an author or co-author of seven books on social cognition and was a member of editorial board of Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression.
Her areas of interest include cognitive and motivational underpinnings of complex social phenomena (e.g., political beliefs, prejudice, stereotyping), cognitive rigidity and its relationships with problem solving and decision making.
The general purpose of her current research program is to offer an integrative, unique approach to the work on epistemic processes, affording a bird’s eye perspective on knowledge formation processes; their motivational, affective, cognitive, and neurocognitive underpinnings; and their ramifications for a broad variety of social psychological phenomena: intrapersonal (e.g., decision making, ideological or religious beliefs), interpersonal (e.g., perspective taking), and intergroup (e.g., group centrism, outgroup derogation).
Primary Interests:
- Aggression, Conflict, Peace
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Neuroscience, Psychophysiology
- Person Perception
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Social Cognition
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Journal Articles:
- Bukowski, M., von Hecker, U., Kossowska, M. (2013). Motivational determinants of reasoning about social relations: The role of need for cognitive closure. Thinking & Reasoning, 19, 150-177.
- Cornelis, I., van Hiel, A. & Kossowska, M. (2009). Age differences in conservatism: Evidence on the mediating effects of personality and cognitive style. Journal of Personality, 77, 51-88
- Duriez, B., Van Hiel, A., & Kossowska, M. (2005). Authoritarianism and social dominance in Western and Eastern Europe: The importance of the socio-political context and of political interest and involvement. Political Psychology, 62, 299-321.
- Golec de Zavala, A., Kossowska, M. (2011), The role of ideological orientations in terrorist perception. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 538-549.
- Jaśko, K. & Kossowska, M. (2013). The impact of superordinate identification on the justification of intergroup inequalities. European Journal of Social Psychology, 43, 255-262.
- Kossowska, M. (2007). Motivation toward closure and cognitive processes: An individual differences approach. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 2149-2158.
- Kossowska, M. (2007). The role of cognitive inhibition in motivation toward closure. Personality and Individual Differences, 42, 1117-1126.
- Kossowska, M. & Bar-Tal, Y. (2013) Need for closure and heuristic information processing: The moderating role of the ability to achieve the need for closure. British Journal of Psychology, 104, 457–480.
- Kossowska, M. & Bar-Tal, Y. (2013). Positive mood boosts the expression of a dispositional need for closure. Cognition & Emotion, 27, 1181-1201.
- Kossowska, M., Bukowski, M. i Van Hiel, A. (2008), The impact of submissive and dominant authoritarianism and negative emotions on prejudice. Personality & Individual Differences, 45, 744-749.
- Kossowska, M., Czarnek, G., Wronka, E., Wyczesany, M., & Bukowski, M. (2014). Individual differences in epistemic motivation and brain conflict monitoring activity. Neuroscience Letters, 570, 38–41. doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2014.04.002
- Kossowska, M., Dragon, P., Bukowski, M. (2014). When need for closure leads to positive attitudes towards a negatively stereotyped outgroup. Motivation and Emotion, DOI 10.1007/s11031-014-9414-5.
- Kossowska, M. Golec de Zavala, A. & Kubik, T. (2010). Stereotyped images of terrorists as predictors of fear of future terrorist attacks. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 3, 1-19.
- Kossowska, M., Jaśko, M., Bar-Tal, Y. i Szastok, M. (2012). The relationship between need for closure and memory for schema-related information among younger and older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology & Cognition, 19, 283-300.
- Kossowska, M., Trejtowicz, M., de Lemus, S., Bukowski, M., Van Hiel, A. & Goodwin, R. (2011). Relationships between right-wing authoritarianism, terrorism threat and attitudes towards restrictions of civil rights: A comparison among four European countries. British Journal of Psychology, 102, 245 – 259.
- Sędek, G, Kossowska, M., & Rydzewska, K. (in press). The Importance of Adult Life-Span Perspective in Explaining Variations in Political Ideology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
- Van Hiel, A., Duriez, B. & Kossowska, M. (2006). The presence of left-wing authoritarianism in Western Europe and its relationship with conservative ideology. Political Psychology, 27, 769-793.
- Van Hiel, A. & Kossowska, M. (2007). Contemporary attitudes and their ideological representation in Flanders (Belgium), Poland and the Ukraine. International Journal of Psychology: Behavioral, 42, 16-26.
- Van Hiel, A. i Kossowska, M. (2006). Having few positive emotions, or too many negative feelings? Emotions as moderating variables of authoritarianism effects on racism. Personality and Individual Differences, 40, 913-930.
Other Publications:
- Kossowska, M., Golec de Zavala, A., Sekerdej, M. i Kubik, T. (2010). Psychological determinants and consequences of terrorist threat perception. W: D. Antonius, A.D. Brown, T. Walters, J. M. Ramirez and S.J. Sinclair (eds.). Interdisciplinary analyses of terrorism and aggression (str. 71-100). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Malgorzata Kossowska
Center for Social Cognitive Studies
Jagiellonian University
al. Mickiewicza 3
31-120 Kraków
Poland
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