Zuzanna Molenda, MA

Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences

zmolenda@psych.pan.pl

PhD candidate at the Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, specialist in the field of psychometrics. She has acquired research experience while working in research teams funded from various grants awarded by the National Science Centre and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Her scientific interests include such areas as emotions regulation, in-group identification and belief in conspiracy theories.

Full list of published works can be found at Zuzanna Molenda's Google Scholar page.

Chosen published papers

Łowicki, P., Marchlewska, M., Molenda, Z., Karakula, A., & Szczepańska, D. (2022). Does religion predict coronavirus conspiracy beliefs? Centrality of religiosity, religious fundamentalism, and COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs. Personality and individual differences, 187, 111413.

Cislak, A., Marchlewska, M., Wojcik, A. D., Śliwiński, K., Molenda, Z., Szczepańska, D., & Cichocka, A. (2021). National narcissism and support for voluntary vaccination policy: The mediating role of vaccination conspiracy beliefs. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 24(5), 701–719. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220959451

Marchlewska, M., Green, R., Cichocka, A., Molenda, Z., & Douglas, K. M. (2021). From bad to

worse: Avoidance coping with stress increases conspiracy beliefs. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12494

Kowalski J., Marchlewska, M., Molenda, Z., Górska, P., Gawęda, Ł. (2020) Adherence to safety and self-isolation guidelines, conspiracy and paranoia-like beliefs during COVID-19 pandemic in Poland - associations and moderators. Psychiatry Research.