Contemporary social psychology is a highly advanced science with respect to its methodology and statistics. It searches for answers to many questions and looks for explanations that help us understand human decisions and behaviors. While searching for newer and more refined methods, we often forget that the best way to test a scientific hypothesis is the tried and true method of conducting experiments. Not forfeiting the advanced methods, researchers at the Social Behavior Research Center concentrate on experimental research on human behavior.

Researchers at the Center conduct a number of common research projects. Some examples of initiatives exploring various lines of inquiry include:

• social influence in the context of Milgram experiment paradigm
• strategies of social influence
• correlation between the weather, crime and moral behaviors
• lies and their determinants
• chain behavior change and compensatory behaviors
• moral foundations of vegetarianism
• the question-behavior effect, the voter’s effect
• determinants and consequences of ostracism and bullying
• the need for a meaning and sense of life and its consequences.

• Conflict avoidance - avoidance and its consequences for obedience in the Milgram paradigm
  Duration of research project: 2018 – 2021
  Principal Investigators: Professor Dariusz Doliński and Associate Professor Tomasz Grzyb
  Funding source: National Science Centre
  Program: OPUS

• Segmentation of electrical energy consumers using the stage-change model: Analysis of factors enhancing adoption of demand side management tools
  Duration of research project: 2017-2019
  Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Katarzyna Byrka
  Funding source: National Science Centre
  Program: OPUS (consortium with the Wrocław University of Science and Technology)

• Compensatory behaviors as strategies for neutralizing negative effects of not meeting deadlines
  Duration of research project: 2015-2019
  Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Katarzyna Byrka
  Funding source: National Science Centre
  Program: SONATA

• Cognitive and motivational determinants of sympathetic magic in close relationships
  Duration of research project: 2015-2018
  Principal Investigator: Assistant Professor Aleksandra Niemyjska
  Funding source: National Science Centre
  Program: SONATA

• The need for sense-making – determinants and consequences
  Duration of research project: 2015 -2018
  Principal Investigator: Assistant Professor Katarzyna Cantarero
  Funding source: National Science Centre
  Program: FUGA

• Cognitive structuring and its cognitive-motivational determinants as an explanatory framework for different psychological phenomena
  Duration of research project: 2013-2017
  Principal Investigators: Professor Dariusz Doliński
  Funding source: National Science Centre
  Program: OPUS

• Individual antecedents of workplace bullying within integrative bullying model: Victims characteristics.
  Duration of research project: 2014-2017
  Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Małgorzata Gamian-Wilk
  Funding source: National Science Centre
  Program: SONATA

• Field experiment as a research method in social psychology: methodology, ethics, and practice
  Duration of research project: 2013 -2015
  Principal Investigators: Associate Professor Tomasz Grzyb
  Funding source: National Science Centre
  Program: FUGA

• The spillover effect in environmental and health domains
  Duration of research project: 2011 -2014
  Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Katarzyna Byrka
  Funding source: Foundation for Polish Science (FNP)
  Program: POMOST

• Cross-cultural differences in the acceptance of lying in view of the Moral Foundations Theory
  Duration of research project: 2011 -2014
  Principal Investigator: Assistant Professor Katarzyna Cantarero
  Funding source: National Science Centre
  Program: PRELUDIUM

• Anthropology of lying in everyday life
  Duration of research project: 2012 -2013
  Principal Investigator: Assistant Professor Katarzyna Cantarero
  Funding source: Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW).
  Program: The National Programme for the Development of Humanities

• Social influence ‒ psychological mechanisms
  Duration of research project: 2010-2013
  Principal Investigators: Professor Dariusz Doliński
  Funding source: National Science Centre

• Attitudes toward social groups within Campbell’s paradigm
  Duration of research project: 2010 -2011
  Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Katarzyna Byrka
  Funding source: Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW)
  Program: Iuventus Plus

Location

SWPS University 
Faculty of Psychology in Wrocław
Ostrowskiego 30b,
53-238 Wrocław, Poland

Contact

Social Behavior Research Center
Faculty of Psychology in Wrocław
e-mail: sbrc.wroclaw@swps.edu.pl