Natalia Frankowska

SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities | SWPS · Institute of Social Psychology

This study assessed the impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on well-being by measuring the changes to food security, dietary behaviour, and sleeping patterns of university staff in England, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and China. Using a cross-sectional study design, participants in four universities in the respective countries were surveyed...

Analysis with Food neophobia as a mediator of the relationship between pathogen disgust and preference for domestic over foreign dishes revealed that the model was not significant, F(3, 193) = 1.89, p = .133, R² = 0.03. Chronic differences in BIS activation were measured using the Three Domain Disgust Scale (TDDS; Tybur et al., 2011) in three subsc...

The Behavioral Immune System (BIS; Ackerman et al., 2018) is a reliable defense mechanism that effectively detects and prevents potential sources of infection. However, it may also lead to prejudice against individuals perceived as different from ourselves, particularly those outside our local environment. This is because foreigners may carry non-l...

Presented studies explored the rear bias phenomenon, that is, the attentional and affective bias to sounds occurring behind the listener. Physiological and psychological reactions (i.e., fEMG, EDA/SCR, Simple Reaction Task-SRT, and self-assessments of affect-related states) were measured in response to tones of different frequencies (Study 1) and e...

The behavioral immune system (BIS) theory assumes that pathogen avoidance motives relate to greater social distance due to the potential risks of pathogen transmission (Park et al., 2007). Thus, pathogen avoidance motives can have many social consequences, such as greater social distance or decreased prosociality. However, completely abandoning pro...

Social distance as a strategy of pathogen avoidance by women in the 1st trimester of pregnancy - the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis not confirmed The behavioral immune system (BIS) represents a set of actions to avoid infectious diseases (Murray & Schaller, 2012). Since having contact with out-group members entails a heightened risk of infecti...

Presented studies explored the rear bias phenomenon, i.e., the attentional and affective bias to sounds occurring behind the listener. Physiological and psychological reactions (i.e., fEMG, EDA/SCR, Simple Reaction Task – SRT, and self-assessments of affect-related states) were measured in response to tones of different frequencies (Study 1) and em...

Social resemblance, like group membership or similar attitudes, increases the mimicry of the observed emotional facial display. In this study, we investigate whether facial self-resemblance (manipulated by computer morphing) modulates emotional mimicry in a similar manner. Participants watched dynamic expressions of faces that either did or did not...

The behavioral immune system (BIS) represents a set of actions to avoid contracting infectious diseases (Murray & Schaller, 2012). For the reason that having contact with outgroup members entails a heightened risk of infection (Schaller & Neuberg, 2012), pathogen avoidance motives have been shown to be linked with negativity toward foreign individu...

Topics of prejudice, discrimination, and negative attitudes toward out-groups have attracted much attention of social scientists during theCOVID-19 pandemic, as the preference for social distancing can originate from a perception of threat.One of the theoretical approaches that offer an explanation for avoidance tendencies is behavioral immune syst...

Cross-sex friendships play an important role both in women’s and men’s lives. On the one hand, cross-sex friends can be our great companions allowing for the substantial level of intimacy (Monseur, 1992; Bleske-Rechek & Buss, 2001). However, the opposite-sex friendship (OSF) can also serve as a medium by which people may seek and initiate both shor...

Although replication is a central tenet of science, direct replications are rare in psychology. This research tested variation in the replicability of thirteen classic and contemporary effects across 36 independent samples totaling 6,344 participants. In the aggregate, ten effects replicated consistently. One effect – imagined contact reducing prej...

This manuscript contains our responses to several commentaries about the Many Labs Project (Klein et al., 2014).

This dataset is from the Many Labs Replication Project [1] in which 13 effects were replicated across 36 samples and over 6,000 participants. Data from the replications are included, along with demographic variables about the participants and contextual information about the environment in which the replication was conducted. Data were collected in...

The fact that men and women experience sexual attraction toward their opposite-sex friends has been evidenced in various studies. It has also been shown that there is a close parallel between preferences for opposite-sex friends and mate preferences, i.e., that men prioritize physical attractiveness of their OSFs, while women prioritize their male...

Topics of prejudice, discrimination, and negative attitudes toward outgroups have attracted much attention of social scientists during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the preference for social distancing can originate from the perception of threat. One of the theoretical approaches that offers an explanation for avoidance tendencies is the behavioral imm...

The behavioral immune system (BIS) is one of the broadly examined subjects in the evolutionary field. It aims to detect potentially threatening sources of infection by triggering emotional (disgust) and behavioral (avoidance) reactions. Visible inflammation cues or coming from a different region (inhabited by new parasites) can result in the increa...

Negative attitudes and stigmatization can originate from the perception of a disease-related threat. Following the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is often suggested that incidents of discriminatory behavior are the result of defense mechanisms aimed at avoiding pathogens. According to the behavioral immune system theory, people are motivated t...

Many studies have explored the evaluative effects of vertical (up/down) or horizontal (left/right) spatial locations. However, little is known about the role of information that comes from the front and back. Based on multiple theoretical considerations, we propose that spatial location of sounds is a cue for message valence, such that a message co...

Many studies have explored the evaluative effects of vertical (up/down) or horizontal (left/right) spatial locations. However, little is known about the role of information that comes from the front and back. Based on multiple theoretical considerations, we propose that spatial location of sounds is a cue for message valence, such that a message co...

In the Human Penguin Project (N = 1755), 15 research groups from 12 countries collected body temperature, demographic variables, social network indices, seven widely-used psychological scales and two newly developed questionnaires (the Social Thermoregulation and Risk Avoidance Questionnaire (STRAQ-1) and the Kama Muta Frequency Scale (KAMF)). They...

We conducted preregistered replications of 28 classic and contemporary published findings, with protocols that were peer reviewed in advance, to examine variation in effect magnitudes across samples and settings. Each protocol was administered to approximately half of 125 samples that comprised 15,305 participants from 36 countries and territories....

We conducted preregistered replications of 28 classic and contemporary published findings with protocols that were peer reviewed in advance to examine variation in effect magnitudes across sample and setting. Each protocol was administered to approximately half of 125 samples and 15,305 total participants from 36 countries and territories. Using co...

We conducted preregistered replications of 28 classic and contemporary published findings, with protocols that were peer reviewed in advance, to examine variation in effect magnitudes across samples and settings. Each protocol was administered to approximately half of 125 samples that comprised 15,305 participants from 36 countries and territories....

In the Human Penguin Project (N = 1755), 15 research groups from 12 countries collected body temperature, demographic variables, social network indices, seven widely-used psychological scales and two newly developed questionnaires (the Social Thermoregulation and Risk Avoidance Questionnaire (STRAQ-1) and the Kama Muta Frequency Scale (KAMF)). They...

Social thermoregulation theory posits that modern human relationships are pleisiomorphically organized around body temperature regulation. In two studies (N = 1755) designed to test the principles from this theory, we used supervised machine learning to identify social and non-social factors that relate to core body temperature. This data-driven an...

People seek high positions not to gain influence over others but to satisfy their need for personal control. Personal control tends to have positive interpersonal consequences. If this is the case, does power indeed corrupt? We argue that holding a high position is associated both with perceptions of power (influence over others) and personal contr...

Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg (1998) reported that participants primed with an intelligent category (“professor”) subsequently performed 13.1% better on a trivia test than participants primed with an unintelligent category (“soccer hooligans”). Two unpublished replications of this study by the original authors, designed to verify the appropriate...

Social thermoregulation theory posits that modern human relationships are pleisiomorphically organized around body temperature regulation. In two studies (N=1747) designed to test this theory, we used supervised machine learning to identify social and non-social factors that relate to core body temperature. This data-driven analysis found that comp...

Are people able to objectively evaluate fairness of the principles ruling the distribution of goods? Such principles often encourage or threaten their own interests and as such people may lose objectivity. But maybe howling injustice is evaluated positively if it is in favour of one’s interest? We present three experiments, that aim to verify the h...

Although replication is a central tenet of science, direct replications are rare in psychology. This research tested variation in the replicability of thirteen classic and contemporary effects across 36 independent samples totaling 6,344 participants. In the aggregate, ten effects replicated consistently. One effect – imagined contact reducing prej...

While direct replications such as the “Many Labs” project are extremely valuable in testing the reliability of published findings across laboratories, they reflect the common reliance in psychology on single vignettes or stimuli, which limits the scope of the conclusions that can be reached. New experimental tools and statistical techniques make it...

This dataset is from the Many Labs Replication Project [1] in which 13 effects were replicated across 36 samples and over 6,000 participants. Data from the replications are included, along with demographic variables about the participants and contextual information about the environment in which the replication was conducted. Data were collected in...

Although replication is a central tenet of science, direct replications are rare in psychology. This research tested variation in the replicability of 13 classic and contemporary effects across 36 independent samples totaling 6,344 participants. In the aggregate, 10 effects replicated consistently. One effect – imagined contact reducing prejudice –...

This study examined the effect of temperament on preferences for painted artwork. Our preferences are determined by different personality traits. The study presented here was a replication of the current study of Terror Management Theory (TMT) with the structures of temperament as individual differences. The results showed significant differences i...