Marta Marchlewska, PhD

Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences

mmarchlewska@psych.pan.pl

Head of the Political Cognition Lab, associate professor and lecturer at the Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Collaborates with the Political Psychology Lab based at the University of Kent (UK). Specialist in the field of psychometrics and quantitative data analysis. She has acquired broad experience by collaborating with a variety of different academic (Center for Research on Prejudice, University of Warsaw; Centre for Social Cognitive Studies, Jagiellonian University; Political Psychology Lab, University of Kent), as well as corporate institutions (Maison&Partners, ARC).

In her projects she concentrates mainly on the functions that different forms of psychological threat play in the way of perceiving the world of politics. She draws particular attention to personality variables: self-esteem, narcissism, in-group identification methods, and links them to political preferences: support for democracy, populist policy or belief in conspiracy theories relating to politics.

Full list of published works can be found at Marta Marchlewska's Google Scholar page.

 

Chosen published papers

 

Marchlewska, M., Green, R., Cichocka, A., Molenda, Z., Douglas, K. M. (2022). From bad to worse: Avoidance coping with stress increases conspiracy beliefs. British Journal of Social Psychology61(2), 532-549.

 

Marchlewska, M., Cichocka, A., Łozowski, F., Górska, P., Winiewski, M. (2019). In search of an imaginary enemy: Catholic collective narcissism and the endorsement of gender conspiracy beliefs. The Journal of social psychology, 1-14.

 

Marchlewska, M., Castellanos, K. A., Lewczuk, K., Kofta, M., Cichocka, A. (2018). My way or the highway: High narcissism and low self‐esteem predict decreased support for democracy. British Journal of Social Psychology.

 

Marchlewska, M., Cichocka, A., Kossowska, M. (2018). Addicted to answers: Need for cognitive closure and the endorsement of conspiracy beliefs. European Journal of Social Psychology, 48(2), 109-117.