Tomasz Baran

Tomasz Baran
University of Warsaw | UW · Department of Personality Psychology

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In a multinational study (61 countries; N =15,039), we examined how collective narcissists, both agentic (ACN) and communal (CCN), reacted cognitively (through endorsement of unfounded conspiracy and health beliefs) and behaviorally (via prevention, hoarding, and prosociality) to the pandemic. Higher ACN and CCN predicted greater endorsement of COV...
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Religion is frequently a key component of national identity. This is notably true in Poland, where national identity is strongly tied to traditional Catholic values. In the present study, we examine the relationship between religious commitment (indicated by self-identification as religious and frequency of practice) and two kinds of national ident...
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Objectives: We aimed to introduce, validate, and showcase the utility of a new construct: communal collective narcissism. Method: We conducted four studies, in which we developed a new scale for communal collective narcissism (Study 1, N = 856), tested the construct’s unique predictions (Study 2, N = 276), examined its social relevance (Study 3, N...
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The present study explored the antecedents of solidarity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Given that solidarity during mass emergencies involves the development of a social identity encompassing those facing a common fate, we examined how national in-group satisfaction (IS, a belief that the national in-group and one’s membership in it are of high value...
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In Poland, both, gender hierarchy restricting women’s sexuality and heteronormativity are rooted in traditional “family values” supported by the teachings of the Polish Catholic Church and attached to Polish national identity. Dissenters to traditional norms regulating gender and sexual relations are rejected as a threat to social order and nationa...
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The present study explored the antecedents of solidarity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Given that solidarity during mass emergencies involves the development of a social identity encompassing those facing a common fate, we examined how national in-group satisfaction (a belief that the national in-group and one’s membership in it are of high value) ve...
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Vaccination is considered as one of the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions. This study aimed to assess (1) the attitudes and behaviors towards mandatory childhood vaccination, with particular emphasis on socio-economic factors determining the vaccine confidence among adults in Poland as well as to (2) identify the potent...
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Results of a three-wave longitudinal study conducted in the first four weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland (N = 889) indicate that right wing-authoritarianism increased as the pandemic unfolded, predicting significant growth in national cohesion and in the belief that non-traditional women and sexual minorities threaten the national survival....
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Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) is a growing problem that arouses interest from scientists, media and recipients. Therefore, finding a universal way to calculate the scale of the phenomenon can not only become a common tool for estimating the extent of FOMO occurrence in any country, but also can be considered for managing this phenomenon. The article p...
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According to social identity theory, low self-esteem motivates group members to derogate out-groups, thus achieving positive in-group distinctiveness and boosting self-esteem. According to the Frankfurt School and status politics theorists, low self-esteem motivates collective narcissism (i.e., resentment for insufficient external recognition of th...
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The Assessment of Spirituality and Religious Sentiments (ASPIRES) scale assesses religiousness and spirituality (R/S) as universal psychological constructs. The current study presents replication of spirituality assessment as proposed by the ASPIRES model and examination of relationships among religiousness, spirituality, agency, communion and ma...
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The current paper presents a proposal for integrating different narcissism constructs (grandiose, vulnerable , communal, and collective) within the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits (CPM), an integrative model of personality structure that could also be used to accommodate the narcissism spectrum model. The study was conducted on a community sam...
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This study examines factors related to willingness to host refugees. We examined the role of national attitudes (patriotism, nationalism), out-group attitudes (classic and modern prejudice), and zero-sum thinking: Belief in a Zero-Sum Game and psychological entitlement in attitudes towards hosting refugees. We proposed including zero-sum thinking a...
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The authors analyse preferences of devices enabling access to social media among the Polish internauts 15+, in regard of the fear of missing out (FOMO) phenomenon. The results of the representative, quantitative survey (CAWI) concerning selection of devices and tools being used were analysed according to demographic variables: age, sex, and place o...
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The current study explores the problem with the lack of measurement invariance for the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) by addressing two issues: conceptual heterogeneity of narcissism and methodological issues related to the binary character of data. We examine the measurement invariance of the 13-item version of the NPI in three populatio...
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Results of five studies (N=1596) linked collective narcissism—a belief in in-group exaggerated greatness contingent on external validation—to direct and indirect, retaliatory hostility in response to situations that collective narcissists perceived as insulting to the in-group but which fell well beyond the definition of an insult. In Turkey, colle...
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The study explored how scores on the three dimensions of the Engineering, Ecological, and Adaptive Capacity (EEA) trait resilience scale, derived from Holling’s ecological systems theory of resilience, demonstrate fit within higher-order bifactor models of measurement, cultural invariance, and associations with clinical caseness of affect. Three sa...
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p>The current experimental study analyzes individuals’ reactions to politicians involved in scandals as a function of scandal type and politician sex ( N = 798). Corruption and sexual scandals were considered. The results indicate that female politicians were judged more harshly than male politicians involved in scandals regardless of the type of s...
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The article presents the Polish adaptation of the Psychological Entitlement Scale (PES) by Keith Campbell and colleagues. Studies were conducted on student samples, a nationwide sample of adolescents and young adults, and workers (n = 1040). In order to test the validity of the scale, its internal structure was examined using confirmatory factor an...
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This article presents the cross-cultural validation of the Entitlement Attitudes Questionnaire, a tool designed to measure three facets of psychological entitlement: active, passive, and revenge entitlement. Active entitlement was defined as the tendency to protect individual rights based on self-worthiness. Passive entitlement was defined as the b...
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The current report presents the factor structure analysis for the Communal Narcissism Inventory (CNI). The bi-factor model assuming one general factor and two residual factors (present-focused and future-focused communal narcissism) was examined across two student samples originating from Poland (N = 831) and the UK (N = 304) and compared to one-fa...
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This article presents the crosscultural validation of the Entitlement Attitudes Questionnaire, a tool designed to measure three facets of psychological entitlement: active, passive and revenge entitlement. Active entitlement was defined as the tendency to protect individual rights based on self-worthiness. Passive entitlement was defined as the bel...
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W artykule przedstawiono wyniki badania zrealizowanego na próbie osób pozostających w związkach (N = 225) dotyczące wpływu roszczeniowości na satysfakcję ze związku romantycznego. Uwzględniono trzy wymiary roszcze-niowości: aktywną, bierną i odwetową (Piotrowski i Żemojtel-Piotrowska, 2009). Jedynie roszczeniowość odwetowa wiązała się negatywnie z...
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The present article examines interrelationships between materialism, subjective well-being, and entitlement. Three entitlement attitudes (active, passive, and revengeful) are examined as possible outcomes of materialism, whereas subjective well-being (SWB) is regarded as a potential mediator and moderator of this relationship. The study analyzed da...
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Artykuł prezentuje wyniki analiz wykonanych na próbie 1900 internautów dotyczące związków między postawami roszczeniowymi (aktywną, bierną i odwetową) a systemem wartości oraz na próbach studenckich pochodzących z 27 krajów o zróżnicowanym poziomie rozwoju ekonomicznego. Sprawdzano związki między natężeniem postaw roszczeniowych a różnymi wskaźnika...
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Artykuł prezentuje wyniki analiz wykonanych na próbie 1900 internautów dotyczące związków między postawami roszczeniowymi (aktywną, bierną i odwetową) a systemem wartości oraz na próbach studenckich pochodzących z 27 krajów o zróżnicowanym poziomie rozwoju ekonomicznego. Sprawdzano związki między natężeniem postaw roszczeniowych a różnymi wskaź...
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Artykuł przedstawia wyniki badania zrealizowanego na ogólnopolskiej próbie internautów (N = 1900) dotyczącego związku postaw roszczeniowych z wartościami w ujęciu Shaloma Schwartza. Uwzględniono trzy wymiary postaw roszczeniowych: roszczeniowość aktywną, bierną i odwetową. Roszczeniowość aktywna wiązała się z wartościami otwartości na zmianę przy j...

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