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Thinking Inconsistently: Development and Validation of an Instrument for Assessing Proneness to Doublethink
(Hogrefe Publishing GmbH, 2021)
People tend to simultaneously accept mutually exclusive beliefs. If they are generally prone to tolerate inconsistencies, irrespective of their content, we say they are prone to doublethink. We developed a measure to capture ...
Beyond General Political Attitudes: Conspiracy Mentality as a Global Belief System Predicts Endorsement of International and Local Conspiracy Theories
(Psychopen, Trier, 2021)
Conspiracy mentality is a general tendency to attribute significant events to the actions of malevolent actors, without referencing to a specific event. In two independent representative surveys of adult Serbian citizens ...
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Epidemic and Mental Health Status in the General Adult Population of Serbia: A Cross-Sectional Study
(MDPI, Basel, 2021)
Since its outbreak, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly spread throughout the world. The Serbian government declared a state of emergency on 15 March 2020, implementing some of Europe's strictest measures to ...
A critical perspective on career shocks in a volatile environment: Red Cross staff and volunteers aiding migrants on their way to Europe in 2016
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, Bingley, 2021)
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the career shocks of Red Cross (RC) of Serbia staff and volunteers providing aid during the 2016 migrants' influx. Specifically, the authors explore what the volatile environment ...
Pred glasačkom kutijom: politička psihologija izbornog ponašanja u Srbiji
(Institut društvenih nauka, 2021)
A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change (vol 4, pg 380, 2020)
(Nature Publishing Group, New York, 2020)
Why teaching? A validation of the fit-choice scale in the Serbian context
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2021)
The aim of this study was to validate the structure of the FIT-Choice scale on a Serbian sample of pre-service teachers, as well as to determine the motivations and beliefs about the teaching profession, and test if ...
"Normalizing" Everyday Life in the State of Emergency: Experiences, Well-Being and Coping Strategies of Emerging Adults in Serbia during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks, 2021)
Although emerging adults are generally more physically resilient to the severe effects of COVID-19, they might be vulnerable to the psychological stressors brought about by the crisis. Using semi-structured interviews, ...
On the Relation of Boredom and Sadistic Aggression
(American Psychological Association, 2020)
What gives rise to sadism? While sadistic behavior (i.e., harming others for pleasure) is welldocumented, past empirical research is nearly silent regarding the psychological factors behind it. We help close this gap by ...
A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change
(Nature Publishing Group, New York, 2020)
Using data from 69 countries, Hassler et al. show that intergroup contact and support for social change towards greater equality are positively associated among members of advantaged groups, but negatively associated among ...