
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
- 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 - Soral, W., Liu, J., & Bilewicz, M. (2020). Media of contempt: Social media consumption predicts normative acceptance of anti-Muslim hate speech and islamoprejudice. International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 14(1), 1-13.
https://doi.org/10.4119/ijcv-3774 - 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 - Soral, W., & Kofta, M. (2020). Differential effects of competence and morality on self-esteem at the individual and the collective level. Social Psychology, 51, 183-198.
https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000410. - 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