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Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska and Jarosław Piotrowski presented their work during the invited symposium of the European Association of Psychological Assessment: "New perspectives in personality assessment" chaired by Magda as the president of the EAPA. In the first presentation we presented data on network analyses of the Dirty Sixteen Dark Tetrad from 55 countries, indicating that the new version of DT, including four items measuring everyday sadism, is suitable for cross-cu

From 15 to 19 June 2026, Oliwia Stopka participated in a scientific mobility visit under the PROM – Short-Term Academic Exchange Programme at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), where she worked with the Psychological Assessment and Personality Research Lab. The primary aim of her visit was to strengthen research collaboration and further develop my methodological expertise in the analysis of dyadic data, with a particular focus on the Actor–Partner Interdependen

From 14 to 18 July 2026, our team—Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska, Jarosław Piotrowski, Piotr Radkiewicz, and Bartłomiej Nowak—participated in the 28th Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), held in Leuven, Belgium. During the congress, we presented findings from our international research projects in two symposia. The first symposium, "Cross-cultural Views on Political Ideologies and Ingroup Narcissistic Identity," featured Professor

From November 8-15, 2025, Professor Jarosław Piotrowski and Professor Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska participated in a study visit in Jamia Milia Islamia University in New Delhi, supported by an NCN OPUS grant, at the invitation of Professor Naved Iqbal. During the visit, they both delivered lectures to staff and students at the Institute of Psychology there. As part of their stay, they also visited the Parliament of India, where they had opportunity to meet with local politic

We are pleased to announce that the chair of Cross-Cultural Psychology lab, Prof. Żemojtel-Piotrowska has become the Vice-President of the Polish Social Psychological Society. See more: https://psps.badania.net/wladze/

Head of the Cross-Cultural Psychology Centre, Prof. Żemojtel-Piotorwska, as one of the authors published an article in Personality and Individual Differences titled "The Short Dark Triad across 14 cultures: A novel network-based invariance approach." We encourage you to read the new publication. Dinić, B. M., Costantini, G., Papageorgiou, K. A., Bonfá-Araujo, B., Grabovac, B., Żemojtel-Piotrowska, M., Ankit, Wertag, A., Kornienko, D., Tripathi, P., Kyriazos, T., Zhang, J.,

We invite you to read the latester publication in International Journal of Psychology titled: "Which narcissists are more stressed: The link between narcissistic forms and stress experience in a five‐day diary study during COVID‐19." Sękowski, M., Piotrowski, J., Nowak, B., Żemojtel-Piotrowska, M., & Maltby, J. (2025). Which narcissists are more stressed: The link between narcissistic forms and stress experience in a five‐day diary study during COVID‐19. International Journa

Members of our lab have made a publication titled “Collective narcissism, left‐ and right‐wing authoritarianisms, and justification of war,” presenting the latest findings on forms of collective narcissism and their relationships with justification of war. We encourage you to read the article. Żemojtel-Piotrowska, M., Radkiewicz, P., Rudnev, M., Kumove, H. A., & Piotrowski, J. (2025). Collective narcissism, left‐ and right‐wing authoritarianisms, and justification of war. P

Members of our lab have produced a publication titled “Re-assessing communal narcissism: The narcissistic sanctity and heroism concept,” presenting the latest findings on forms of grandiose narcissism. We encourage you to read the article. Żemojtel-Piotrowska, M., Piotrowski, J., Sawicki, A., Skowronski, J. J., Jonason, P., Cieciuch, J., Strus, W., & Sedikides, C. (2025). Re-assessing communal narcissism: The narcissistic sanctity and heroism concept. Journal of Research in