Contact

room no.: 96
office hours: after appointment
email: wiktor.soral@psych.uw.edu.pl

Current research projects

dr Wiktor Soral

assistant professor/post-doc

Research interests

My current work focuses on the psychological mechanisms responsible for the spread of hate speech. I investigate what are the consequences of frequent exposure to hate speech, and what are the conditions under which one will reproduce hateful content. In a separate line of research I study different forms of perceiving agency in the social world. Specifically, I investigate how sense of lack of agency/control can translate into a search for external sources of agency/control (e.g., conspiring outgroups).

Recent publications

    • Pluta, A., Mazurek, J., Wojciechowski, J., Wolak, T., Soral, W., & Bilewicz, M. (2023). Exposure to hate speech deteriorates neurocognitive mechanisms of the ability to understand others’ pain. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 4127.
      https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31146-1
    • Bilewicz, M., & Soral, W. (2022). The politics of vaccine hesitancy: An ideological dual-process approach. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(6), 1080-1089.
      https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211055295
    • Soral, W., Kofta, M., & Bukowski, M. (2021). Helplessness experience and intentional (un-)binding: Control deprivation disrupts the implicit sense of agency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(2), 289–305.
      https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000791
    • Bilewicz, M., & Soral, W. (2020). Hate speech epidemic. The dynamic effects of derogatory language on intergroup relations and political radicalization. Political Psychology, 41, 3-33.
      https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12670
    • Kofta, M., Soral, W., & Bilewicz, M. (2020). What breeds conspiracy antisemitism? The role of political uncontrollability and uncertainty in the belief in Jewish conspiracy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118(5), 900–918.
      https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000183