Program

Hopes and Challenges:
How do People Cope with Social Change?
Conference organized by
The Robert B. Zajonc Institute for Social Studies (ISS)
University of Warsaw
In cooperation with
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, USA
Warsaw, Hotel Harenda, ul.Krakowskie Przedmieście 4/6
May, 10-11 , 2012
Program
May, 10 , 2012 (Thursday)
10.00 -10.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Marcin Pałys, Vice Rector of the University of Warsaw
Renata Siemieńska, Director of the Institute for Social Studies, University of
Warsaw
Rowell Huesmann, Director of the Research Center for Group Dynamics, University
of Michigan.
10.30 - 12.00 PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL CHANGE
Chair: Rowell Huesmann
Andrzej Nowak
How social transition occurs - perspective of complexity science
Emily Falk
Communication Neuroscience: using neuroimaging to predict real
world outcomes
Renata Siemieńska
Women and Men - Actors of Fluid Modernity. Inconsistency of Values , Behaviors and
Positions.
12.00 - 13:00 – Lunch
13.00 – 15.00 CULTURAL, POLITICAL AND ECONIMIC CONSEQENCES OF SOCIAL
CHANGE
Chair: Eugene Burnstein
Ryszard Praszkier
Endogenous social change as a chance for sustainable development
Krystyna Iglicka
Consequences of post-enlargement migration. Perspective of a donor country.
Tomasz Zarycki
Constructing new identities for Eastern Poland
John E. Jackson and Bogdan W. Mach
Young Voters and Political Repositioning in Poland
15. 00 – 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 – 17. 30 - PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL CHANGE
Chair: John E. Jackson
Rowell Huesmann and Lucyna Kirwil
Differential psychological reactions to observing violence and attitudes about
violence in the USA and Poland from 1980 to 2010
Adam Frączek and Aleksandra Tłuściak-Deliowska
Dynamic of Juvenile Aggressive Offences in Time of Transformation in Poland (data
from 1991 until 2006)
Grażyna Wieczorkowska-Wierzbińska, Eugene Burnstein, Anna Kuźmińska and
Bartłomiej Michałowicz
How people’s financial problems influence their evaluation of current and future life
satisfaction in Poland, Italy and Japan
Sonya Dal Cin
Movie messages: Effects of tobacco and alcohol imagery in movies on viewers’
substance use.
May, 11, 2012 (Friday)
10: 00 - 12.00 - IDENTITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Chair: Emily Falk
Janusz Grzelak
Social Change and Individual Uncertainty
Mirosław Kofta, Michał Bilewicz & Grzegorz Sędek
Conspiracy theory of Jews in the times of democratic transformation
Piotr Radkiewicz
How many similarities and how many differences? The nature of national identity in
a united Europe
Monika Prusik and Maria Lewicka
The Polish people’s regret for the Polish People’s Republic. Structure and functions
of nostalgia as manifested in popular attitudes to the recent past in Poland.
Barbara Liberda
Household Saving Profiles in Poland during 1990 – 2010
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.30 - POSTER SESSION
Chair: Renata Siemieńska
1. Tomasz Jerzyński and Marcin Zieliński
20 years of International Social Survey Programme in Poland. "Religion" 1991 2011.
2. Maryla Goszczyńska and Sabina Kołodziej
Psychological and psychosocial determinants of perception and acceptance of the
euro in Poland
3. Ilona Matysiak
Cultural and social capitals of women getting to power positions in rural
communities in Poland. The case of village representatives.
4. Paulina Górska
Model example of collective action? Protests against ACTA!
5. Marek Błażewicz and Mirosław Kofta
Influence of authoritarianism and social dominance orientation on inference of
traits: the group context
6. Wiktor Soral and Mirosław Kofta
„Not so great?!?“ Intergroup comparisons, social identity thereat and ascription of
competence and communion traits to ingroup and outgroup members.
7. Mikołaj Winiewski and Michał Bilewicz
The Emergence of Antisemitism in Times of Rapid Social Change: Survey results
from Poland
8. Jarosław Ziółkowski, Mirosław Kofta, Michał Bilewicz.
Group identification and decision making in morally dilemmatic situations
9. Katarzyna Samson, Magdalena Roszczyńska-Kurasińska, Marta Kacprzyk, Anna
Banaszkiewicz, Michał Ziembowicz, Andrzej Nowak
Effects of partner’s group membership on the dynamics of trust in a trust game
10. Magda Roszczyńska-Kurasińska, Marta Kacprzyk, Paweł Gołąb, Wojciech
Borkowski, Andrzej Nowak
Agent based multilevel modeling of energy policy – Kosice use case"
11. Wojciech Borkowski, Magda Jagielska, Marta Kacprzyk, Krzysztof Lipiec, Klara
Łucznik, Magda Roszczyńska-Kurasińska, Agnieszka Rychwalska, Andrzej Nowak
The role of embeddedness – modeling social factors influencing technology transfer
12. Filip Raciborski and Kamil Rakocy
Can Google predict election results?
15. 30 – 16. 00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.30 SOCIO-ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL CHANGE
Chair: Sonya Dal Cin
Bogdan Cichomski
Economic and social inequality and justice sentiments in Poland during
transformation 1992-2010. Based on the Polish General Social Surveys 1992-2010
Ewa Gucwa-Leśny
Decreasing Perception of the Opportunities for Social Advancement Reflects
Lowering Income Mobility
Anna Domaradzka-Widła and Dominika Walczak
Perceived and real role of PhD as seen by doctoral students and PhD graduates
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Contact persons:
Aneta Maciągowska (organizational issues) - [email protected]
Tomasz Zarycki (conference program) – [email protected]