team

Jochem van Noord is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Groningen. His interests lie in the fields of political psychology and sociology, mostly focusing on processes of inequality and intergroup conflict. In the UNDPOLAR project he focuses on both the investigation of the structure and distribution of belief systems, and experimental research on polarization.

Personal webpage:
https://www.rug.nl/staff/j.van.noord/ 
Twitter:
@jochemvnoord 
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=OB3U5RYAAAAJ 
ORCiD:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2351-0260 

Bram Spruyt is Associate Professor in Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium). His main research interests include the sociology of education, public opinion research, and the reproduction of social inequalities.

Website:
https://torvub.be/
Twitter:
@BramSpruyt1

Lien Smets is a scientific collaborator in Political Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her interests include democratic innovations, behavioral insights and polarization. In the UNDPOLAR project she focuses on the potential of democratic deliberation in overcoming polarization.

Website:
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/lien-smets

Rosa Rodriguez-Bailon is a professor in Social Psychology at the University of Granada (Spain). Her research interests include economic and power disparities and some of their psychosocial effects on the reproduction of such inequalities. In the UNDPOLAR project she mainly focuses on analysing the effects of social and economic inequalities on political polarization.

Lab website:
www.ugr.es/local/psidesigualdad
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=v2zZfmYAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao
Twitter:
@rrbailon

Guillermo B. Willis is an assistant professor in Social psychology at the University of Granada (Spain). His research mainly examines the effects of economic inequality on several psychological processes, such as individualism, status competition, and sense of control. 

Personal website:
www.ugr.es/local/psidesigualdad
Twitter:
@gbwillis

Efraín García Sánchez is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Granada. His research interests rely on the social psychological processes related to economic inequality, justice, and attitudes toward public policies. In the UNDPOLAR project he focuses on the effect of economic inequality on polarization and political attitudes.

Twitter:
@egarcias129
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cUzFEFwAAAAJ&hl=es 
ORCiD:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8097-5822  

Mark Brandt is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Michigan State University (USA). His research goal is to understand ideological and moral beliefs – such as political ideology, racism, religious fundamentalism, and moral conviction – and how they structure attitudes and behaviors, how they provide people with meaning, and why people adopt them in the first place. In the UNDPOLAR project he is contributing to subprojects about the structure of threat and belief systems. 

Personal web page:
https://tbslaboratory.com 
Twitter:
@mjbsp 
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_qHgIbAAAAAJ&hl=en 

Felicity Turner-Zwinkels is a post-doc in the department of Sociology at Tilburg University (NL). She studies identity and political belief systems and how they impact political behaviour. In the UNDPOLAR project she is working on projects about the structure of threat and political belief systems.

Personal profile:
https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/f-m-turner
Twitter:
@FelicityMTurner
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gEfRVBQAAAAJ&hl=en&inst=3385539784813856853&oi=ao

Peter Achterberg is professor of sociology at Tilburg University. Peter is a cultural sociologist with a general interest in studying cultural, political, and religious change in the West. Much of his work deals with the question of how people attribute meaning to the changing world surrounding them, whether these meanings have consequences for their behavior, and, of course, how these (changing and differing) meanings can be explained. 

Website:
peterachterberg.nl
Twitter:
@_PEtErT
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=nrQ3NtEAAAAJ

Matt Easterbrook is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sussex (UK).  He researches self, identity, and group processes in a variety of settings and has a particular interest in educational inequalities and social psychological interventions that aim to benefit disadvantaged and minoritized groups.

Personal profile:
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p173988-matthew-easterbrook
Lab group webpage:
http://www.inpsyed.net  
Twitter:
@MattEasters
ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9353-5957

Tony Manstead is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Cardiff University (UK). His research interests include emotion, attitudes and social identity. In the UNDPOLAR project he is mainly associated with experimental research on polarization.

Website:
https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/1155270-manstead-antony
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Fl9ZLOwAAAAJ&hl=en

Marta Rogoza is a post-doc at the Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences. She is a scientist who is especially interested in personality research. Most of her works are devoted to studying the personality development and “dark” aspects of personality, especially narcissism. In the UNDPOLAR project she is working on projects about threats and in-group identification.

Website:
http://politicalcognition.psych.pan.pl/en/our-team/marta-rogoza 
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XVOSMvYAAAAJ&hl=p

Rosa Rodriguez-Bailon is a professor in Social Psychology at the University of Granada (Spain). Her research interests include economic and power disparities and some of their psychosocial effects on the reproduction of such inequalities. In the UNDPOLAR project she mainly focuses on analysing the effects of social and economic inequalities on political polarization.

Lab website:
www.ugr.es/local/psidesigualdad
Twitter:
@rrbailon
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=v2zZfmYAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao

Guillermo B. Willis is an assistant professor in Social psychology at the University of Granada (Spain). His research mainly examines the effects of economic inequality on several psychological processes, such as individualism, status competition, and sense of control. 

Personal website:
www.ugr.es/local/psidesigualdad
Twitter:
@gbwillis

Efraín García Sánchez is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Granada. His research interests rely on the social psychological processes related to economic inequality, justice, and attitudes toward public policies. In the UNDPOLAR project he focuses on the effect of economic inequality on polarization and political attitudes.

Twitter:
@egarcias129
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cUzFEFwAAAAJ&hl=es 
ORCiD:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8097-5822  

Marta Marchlewska is an Assistant Professor in social and political psychology at the Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, head of the Political Cognition Lab and lecturer at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities. In her projects she concentrates mainly on the functions that different forms of psychological threat play in the way of perceiving the world of politics. She draws particular attention to personality variables: self-esteem, narcissism, in-group identification methods, and links them to political preferences: support for democracy, populist policy or belief in conspiracy theories relating to politics.

Personal web page:
http://politicalcognition.psych.pan.pl/en/our-team/dr-marta-marchlewska

Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.pl/citations?user=-VggXe4AAAAJ&hl=pl

Marta Rogoza is a post-doc at the Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences. She is a scientist who is especially interested in personality research. Most of her works are devoted to studying the personality development and “dark” aspects of personality, especially narcissism. In the UNDPOLAR project she is working on projects about threats and in-group identification.

Website:
http://politicalcognition.psych.pan.pl/en/our-team/marta-rogoza 

Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XVOSMvYAAAAJ&hl=p

Marta Rogoza is a post-doc at the Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences. She is a scientist who is especially interested in personality research. Most of her works are devoted to studying the personality development and “dark” aspects of personality, especially narcissism. In the UNDPOLAR project she is working on projects about threats and in-group identification.

Website:
http://politicalcognition.psych.pan.pl/en/our-team/marta-rogoza 
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XVOSMvYAAAAJ&hl=p

Marta Rogoza is a post-doc at the Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences. She is a scientist who is especially interested in personality research. Most of her works are devoted to studying the personality development and “dark” aspects of personality, especially narcissism. In the UNDPOLAR project she is working on projects about threats and in-group identification.

Website:
http://politicalcognition.psych.pan.pl/en/our-team/marta-rogoza 
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XVOSMvYAAAAJ&hl=p

Rebekka Kesberg is a post-doc at the University of Sussex (UK). Her research interests include cultural and environmental influences, human values, prosocial behavior and social dilemmas.

In the UNDPOLAR project she is working on projects about threat and perceived polarization.

Personal profile:
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p525373-rebekka-kesberg
Twitter:
RKesberg
ORCiD:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2240-2401

Céline Darnon is professor of social psychology at Université Clermont Auvergne (France). Her research examines how the practices of the educational system (e.g., assessment practices) and the values that are prescribed within this system (e.g., school meritocracy, self-affirmation, performance goals,…) contribute to reproduce and legitimize the social class and gender inequalities. In the UNDPOLAR project, she is mainly involved in experimental research.

Personal profile:
https://www.lapsco.fr/sites/darnon/
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RSI3Km0AAAAJ&hl=fr&oi=ao
ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2613-689X

Felicity Turner-Zwinkels is a post-doc in the department of Sociology at Tilburg University (NL). She studies identity and political belief systems and how they impact political behaviour. In the UNDPOLAR project she is working on projects about the structure of threat and political belief systems.

Personal profile:
https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/f-m-turner
Twitter:
@FelicityMTurner
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gEfRVBQAAAAJ&hl=en&inst=3385539784813856853&oi=ao

Peter Achterberg is professor of sociology at Tilburg University. Peter is a cultural sociologist with a general interest in studying cultural, political, and religious change in the West. Much of his work deals with the question of how people attribute meaning to the changing world surrounding them, whether these meanings have consequences for their behavior, and, of course, how these (changing and differing) meanings can be explained. 

Website:
peterachterberg.nl
Twitter:
@_PEtErT
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=nrQ3NtEAAAAJ

Marta Marchlewska is an Assistant Professor in social and political psychology at the Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, head of the Political Cognition Lab and lecturer at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities. In her projects she concentrates mainly on the functions that different forms of psychological threat play in the way of perceiving the world of politics. She draws particular attention to personality variables: self-esteem, narcissism, in-group identification methods, and links them to political preferences: support for democracy, populist policy or belief in conspiracy theories relating to politics.

Personal web page:
http://politicalcognition.psych.pan.pl/en/our-team/dr-marta-marchlewska

Twitter: –

Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.pl/citations?user=-VggXe4AAAAJ&hl=pl

Marta Rogoza is a post-doc at the Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences. She is a scientist who is especially interested in personality research. Most of her works are devoted to studying the personality development and “dark” aspects of personality, especially narcissism. In the UNDPOLAR project she is working on projects about threats and in-group identification.

Website:
http://politicalcognition.psych.pan.pl/en/our-team/marta-rogoza 
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XVOSMvYAAAAJ&hl=p

Rebekka Kesberg is a post-doc at the University of Sussex (UK). Her research interests include cultural and environmental influences, human values, prosocial behavior and social dilemmas.

In the UNDPOLAR project she is working on projects about threat and perceived polarization.

Personal profile: https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p525373-rebekka-kesberg

Twitter: @RKesberg

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2240-2401