Research Forum: Making the Personal Political: Exploring the Role of Self-Worth and Social Identities in Political Attitudes and Behaviours
Research Forum: Making the Personal Political: Exploring the Role of Self-Worth and Social Identities in Political Attitudes and Behaviours
The next Research Forum session of the academic year 2023-2024
The Department of Political and Social Sciences invites DCPIS members, PhD, and Master students.
It will be hosted by Veronica Benet-Martínez (UPF), Professor in the Department of Political and Social Science at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF).
Join us!
Presentation: Making the Personal Political: Exploring the Role of Self-Worth and Social Identities in Political Attitudes and Behaviours
Speaker: Aleksandra Cichocka (University of Kent)
Chair: Veronica Benet-Martínez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Date: Thursday, March 7th, 2024
Time: 12pm - 1:30pm CEST
Room: 40.035 Sala de graus Albert Calsamiglia
Building: Roger de Llúria
This will be a hybrid event that you can attend in person or online.
Zoom Link: https://upf-edu.zoom.
Abstract:
In order to make informed political decisions, it is important to understand the psychological factors that influence political convictions and behaviours. This talk will examine how political attitudes are linked to various forms of self-evaluation and the ways people feel about the social groups to which they belong. It will cover survey, experimental and computational research, exploring especially the role of individual and collective narcissism in politics.
About the speaker:
Aleksandra Cichocka is a Professor of Political Psychology at the University of Kent. She completed her PhD at the University of Warsaw and was a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Psychology at New York University. Between 2018 and 2022, she served as Vice President of the International Society of Political Psychology. Her work applies the psychology of the self and the psychology of groups to help understand the politics of contemporary democracies. She has published over 70 articles in various specialised and interdisciplinary outlets, including Nature, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Social Psychological and Personality Science. This work has been awarded several distinctions, including the 2023 Jim Sidanius Early Career Award from the International Society of Political Psychology and the 2017 Jos Jaspars Medal awarded to early career scholars for outstanding research contribution by the European Association of Social Psychology.