Personality and collective actions

Goal: The general scientific goal of the project is to integrate results of the research from the area of violent behaviors, conducted from the perspective of personality trait analyses and social psychology. To date, dispositional factors related to antisocial and aggressive behaviors are not often included in the research on violent CAs, although results on the self-reported scales of antisocial tendencies have been linked to variables important for understanding social behaviors, such as SDO, prejudice, perceived intergroup threats, dehumanization, support of political issues, and sexist and violent attitudes. The presented project aims at the integration of the different psychological perspectives to more fully understand the motivation to accept, support, and join violent group actions.

Research project supported by Polish National Science Centre, OPUS 22 call. Principal Investigator: Tomasz Besta.

• Lab:
• Protest Lab Gdansk / Environmental Psychology and Intergroup Relations Lab