Tijana Karić

• Doctor of Psychology
• Research Fellow at Philipps University of Marburg

The roles of conspiracy beliefs and political trust for public health behaviour have seldomly been studied prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we tested whether conspiracy beliefs affect containment-related behaviour in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic and whether this relationship is mediated by political trust, preference for saving t...

Not many studies have dealt with how Serbs from Serbia see Croats and Bosniaks in the light of the wars from 1990s. In our study, we used a quasi-experimental approach to assess the type of stereotypes provoked in Serbs, and their relationship to social distance and the national identity. The sample consisted of 66 participants of Serbian ethnicity...

Risk assessment is one of the main areas of interest of experts dedicated to the analysis of offenders convicted to imprisonment. After theoretical assumptions, consideration of the Risk Assessment Questionnaire and relevant research in this area, we present results of an empirical study conducted in PCI Sremska Mitrovica, on a sample of 150 offend...

To define intergroup reconciliation is still a dynamic topic in social-psychological research, and lay people are seldom included in the study. Given that post-conflict processes in the context of Bosnia and Herzegovina are still marked by ethnic divisions, the main aim of our research has been to explore how Serbs and Bosniaks define reconciliatio...

Purpose The present study aimed to investigate the extent to which violent intergroup conflict may be associated with human life history trajectories. Methods We examined life histories in a postconflict socioecology (Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo: N = 699) and compared them with a control condition (Serbia: N = 628) using the network analysis...

This Special Issue editorial explores perspectives on intergroup reconciliation and its underlying processes in post‐conflict societies, emphasizing the importance of four key themes: 1) victimhood, 2) acknowledgment, 3) forgiveness, and 4) intergroup contact. After presenting the state of the art in reconciliation research, we present the individu...

Misrecognition describes everyday practices that deny the autonomy of minority members to define who they are and instead impose identities that may diverge from their own sense of self. Being misrecognized is particularly relevant for the historically marginalized Roma people, whose national belonging is repeatedly questioned despite centuries of...

This paper reports a quantitative investigation of the antecedents and consequences of misrecognition for group relations. Moreover, as we simultaneously take into account effects associated with perceived discrimination, we are able to show the added value of attending to the experience of misrecognition as a predictor of outcomes relevant to inte...

Identifying with superordinate identities can improve intergroup relations but sometimes it can backfire. Bosnia and Herzegovina offer a real-life context for studying social recategorization after violent conflict, which has not often been done in social psychological research. We applied Q methodology to explore the conceptualizations of Bosnian–...

In this study, we hypothesized that traditionalist social attitudes (conservatism, religiousness, and authoritarianism) significantly predict COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs (Hiding Information and Harmless Virus), as well as conspiracy mentality in general. We also hypothesized that these relationships are mediated by the objectivity of the media thro...

In this study, we hypothesized that traditionalist social attitudes (conservatism, religiousness, and authoritarianism) significantly predict COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs, as well as conspiracy mentality in general. We also hypothesized that these relationships are mediated by the objectivity of the media individuals inform themselves from, and the...

In this study, we explored the attitudes of the general public towards juvenile offenders. Participants (N=1264), aged 18-87 (M=34), responded to a 17-item scale created based on public comments to news about juvenile offending on news portals and social media. ociodemographic characteristics were also collected. The analysis revealed three interp...

Ever since the importance of the psychological aspects of infertility was recognized, researchers have been trying to define adaptation to this non-developmental crisis. Lately, more popular research has been concerned with the question of which factors contribute to better adaptation, rather than what that adaptation is. The majority of these stud...

Although the war in B&H ended more than 20 years ago, ethnic tensions continue to be present. The aim of this article is to present the level and differences between Serbs and Bosniaks in identification with national symbols of B&H. The representative sample consisted of 1308 participants, 58.7% of Bosniak ethnicity, living in Bosnia & Herzegovina....

Inkluzivno obrazovanje u Srbiji uvedeno je 2009. godine. Istraživanja koja su se bavila ispitivanjem stavova učitelja, kao glavnih nosilaca inkluzije u našoj zemlji,vrlo su retka, a brojna istraživanja u inostranstvu ukazala su na značaj učitelja i važnost njihovih pozitivnih stavova prema inkluziji za socioemocionalni i akademski razvoj dece. Ovim...

In January 2006, the Law on juvenile offenders and legal protection of mi¬nors came into effect. By the provisions of substantive-criminal law, the Law has foreseen diversionary measures and alternative sanctions. After successful piloting of implemen¬tation of alternative sanctions for juvenile offenders, the work on social rehabilitation of juven...

In this paper, we explored the in-group and outer-group social distance towards sex workers and its relations to authoritarianism, social dominance orientation and self-respect. The sample consisted of 92 participants from the general population and 45 female sex workers (age 18-50). The instruments used were the Bogardus social distance scale, the...

The study described perceived differences in the choice of child rearing practices aimed at correcting children’s inappropriate behaviors as remembered by the participants at young adulthood. The sample consisted of 207 students of under-graduate studies of the University of Novi Sad. The most of the participants does not have children and they gre...

Teorija afektivne vezanosti individualne razlike opisuje preko razlika u obrascima afektivne vezanosti koji se kod odraslih prepoznaju u interpersonalnim relacijama. Osobe sa nesigurnim obrascem vezanosti imaju negativnu sliku o drugima, koja potom utiče na negativnu percepciju ponašanja partnera i na očekivanje negativnog ponašanja partnera u odno...