Agata Gąsiorowska
Biographic Data
| ID | 255307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Agata Gąsiorowska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Agata |
| FAMILY NAME | Gąsiorowska |
| SIGNATURE | GĄSIOROWSKA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uniwersytet SWPS |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3354-1095 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Insecurity to Exchange: Attachment Anxiety and Avoidance Predict Exchange Orientation via Different Psychological Mechanisms
Across three studies (N = 2,309), we examined the relationship between attachment insecurity and aspects of exchange orientation. Study 1 showed that attachment anxiety was related to exchange orientation toward romantic partners and acquaintances, and calculative mindset, whereas attachment avoidance was related to exchange orientation toward romantic partners and a calculative mindset. Preregistered Study 2 replicated these links longitudinally…
Borderline personality mediates the link between attachment insecurities and subjective working memory deficits: The role of pre‐emptive and post‐emptive strategies
Individuals with attachment insecurities, particularly attachment anxiety, often report subjective working memory deficits (SWMD). However, the psychological mechanisms underlying this relationship remain poorly understood. In this project, we propose that borderline personality disorder (BPD) features help explain this link. We tested this model across three studies, including one preregistered study, conducted with Russian, Turkish, and Polish …
Uncovering the link between attachment and interpersonal objectification: The role of theory of mind and empathy
While extensive research has examined the consequences of objectification in specific contexts (e.g., sexual or workplace settings), little is known about how interpersonal personal relationship is related to objectification. Similarly, although attachment theory explains relational patterns, its connection to interpersonal objectification—particularly via socio-cognitive processes like Theory of Mind (ToM) and empathy—remains largely unexplored.…
Trust under watch: Relational models and the context-dependent nature of monitoring
Trust and control are often portrayed as opposing forces in a hydraulic relationship. Across six preregistered experiments (total N = 4086) conducted in Australia, South Africa, the UK, and the US, we demonstrate that this relationship is context-dependent rather than universal. We examined how verification monitoring—a subtle form of control—affects trust in communal sharing (CS) versus market pricing (MP) relationships. Participants found monit…
Psychometric validation of the Polish version of the Utrecht Gender Dysphoria Scale - Gender Spectrum questionnaire
Background Accessible and inclusive tools for assessing gender dysphoria in Polish-speaking populations remain limited. To bridge this gap in care, there is an urgent need for accessible, psychometrically sound tools to assess Polish gender-diverse individuals. In this study, we aimed to adapt the Polish version of the Utrecht Gender Dysphoria Scale - Gender Spectrum to address a critical gap in assessment tools that include nonbinary, binary tra…
Grateful Hearts, Lighter Wallets: Gratitude Diminishes the Desire for Money Through Social Connectedness and Self‐Transcendence
Building on theories that position gratitude as a social and self‐transcendent emotion, this research examined whether gratitude reduces people's desire for money across four preregistered studies ( N = 3,125). Study 1 provided evidence that gratitude was negatively associated with money desire across three countries (the United Kingdom, Mexico and South Africa). Studies 2–4 provided experimental evidence that various gratitude manipulations cons…
Anxious aspirations: Attachment anxiety fuels status strivings through intrasexual competition
Striving for social status is a fundamental human motive, yet individuals vary considerably in their status-seeking tendencies. Drawing on attachment literature and life history theory, we propose that attachment anxiety drives status pursuit through heightened intrasexual competition. Across six preregistered studies ( N = 4,456) spanning five countries, we find that attachment anxiety, rather than attachment avoidance, predicts status strivings…
A Systematic and Critical Review of Trust Based on Communal Vs. Market Cognitions: Emotions in Perspective
Trust researchers have recently professed the dynamic nature of trust based on cognitive and affective considerations of the context – personal vs. professional. It presents that communal sharing (personal) cognition has a different formulation of trust than the market pricing (professional) mindset. Also, incidental processing of emotion impacts the level of trust differently than the integral one. Thus, we conducted a comprehensive literature r…
Exploring Homework Help as a Predictor of Children's Well‐Being: Mediation by Gratitude and Moderation by Mother's Work Status
The study aims to explore the connection between diverse homework help sources, children's well‐being, and gratitude levels. We recruited 295 children in India (ages 7 to below 18) via snowball sampling for an online survey assessing homework help, gratitude and wellbeing. We found a positive association between using multiple sources for homework help and well‐being, mediated by gratitude. The mother's work status did not moderate the relationsh…
Mental imagery shapes emotions in people's decisions related to risk taking
This research investigates the specific effects of mental imagery on people's emotional responses and risk-taking decisions. We present findings across four studies, including three experiments, that highlight emotions as a mediator between the valence of mental images related to risk and subsequent risk-taking propensity. Our research identifies two key factors that moderate this relationship: the category of cognitive process (analytical thinki…
Label matters: How labeling and diagnosis affect lay perception of people with depressive symptoms
We investigated how the label "depression" and information about a medical diagnosis influence perceptions of individuals with depressive symptoms as legitimately experiencing depression and a medical condition. In three experiments, participants read a description of a person meeting Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) criteria for major depressive episode and manipulated whether the label "depression" and the informati…
Longitudinal Assessment of Financial Well-Being Across Europe Confirms the Multidimensionality of the Construct
Effect of age on susceptibility to the attraction effect in sequential risky decision-making
Our study aims to contribute to the existing body of research on age-related changes in decision-making by investigating susceptibility to the attraction effect across adulthood. Prior studies have produced inconsistent conclusions regarding the decision-making abilities of older individuals, with some portraying them as easily manipulated and risk-averse, while others suggest the opposite. To address this issue, we conducted two experiments usin…
Conspicuous consumption and conscientious conservation: Testing for a status-prosociality link through need for uniqueness and variety seeking
Whereas the environmental impact of buying luxury goods is debated, there is evidence that purchasing such products—often referred to as conspicuous consumption —can be more sustainable than hoarding cheaper alternatives because luxury goods are more durable and are often passed down through generations, resulting in fewer resources being consumed by the average consumer. Contrary to popular beliefs that conspicuous consumption is inconsistent wi…
Religiosity Decline in Europe: Age, Generation, and the Mediating Role of Shifting Human Values
Despite the fact that age is associated with higher religiosity, the aging European population has experienced a noticeable religiosity decline over recent decades. This study aimed to explain this paradox and to link it to an intergenerational shift in the pattern of values (as conceptualized by Shalom Schwartz). We conducted extended mediation analyses on the relationships between generational affiliation and the level of personal religiosity v…
Linking Work Events with Work Engagement: Mediating Role of Emotions and Moderating Role of Psychological Capital
We examined the role of work-related emotions and personal resources operationalised as psychological capital (PsyCap) in the relationship between events occurring at work and employees’ work engagement. Using affective events theory and broaden-and-build theory as theoretical frameworks, we theorise that the perceived frequency of positive and negative events at work and work engagement is mediated by positive and negative work-related emotions …
Social assistance or agency? Attachment Styles Moderate the Impact of Control Threat on Social Relationship Preferences
Building upon Gasiorowska and Zaleskiewicz's (2021, 2023), we explored how a control threat and attachment style influence social relationship preferences. This experiment aimed to investigate how experiencing a control threat affects individuals with secure, anxious, and avoidant attachment patterns when they can choose between seeking assistance from the market, asking a close person for help, or coping with the situation alone. Participants wi…
I Cheat” or “We Cheat?” The Structure and Psychological Correlates of Individual vs. Collective Examination Dishonesty
Psychometric validation of the polish version of the emotional style questionnaire
The need for sense-making as a personal resource: Conceptualization and scale development
Attachment orientations moderate people's preferences for market versus communal relationships under a control threat
In two studies, we examined the effects of a control threat and attachment orientation on people's preferences for market relationships. In Study 1, experiencing a control threat increased the willingness to seek practical support in the market rather than ask a close person for help among participants with higher attachment anxiety. In a well-powered preregistered Study 2, we replicated these results and demonstrated that they also hold for situ…
Individual Characteristics and Pain Sensitivity during Pregnancy—A Cross-Sectional Study in Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Women
The aim of the study was to describe the characteristics and factors related to pain perception in pregnant women, such as optimism, personality traits, and fear of developing COVID-19 consequences. Sixty-six pregnant women aged 23 to 42 years participated in the study, and the comparison group consisted of n = 59 non-pregnant female students aged 19 to 23 years. Pressure pain threshold and pain tolerance were measured with an algometer. To asses…
Market mindset reduces endorsement of individualizing moral foundations, but not in liberals
People with a market mindset attend to ratios and rates, and allocate rewards adequately to costs but are less sensitive to feelings. In this project, we demonstrate that activating a market mindset also affects people’s acceptance of free-market principles and their endorsement of individualizing moral dimensions—care/harm and fairness/cheating. Experiment 1 documented that a market mindset positively impacted people’s endorsement of fair market…
Market mindset impacts moral decisions: The exposure to market relationships makes moral choices more utilitarian by means of proportional thinking
We show that exposure to market relationships increases people’s tendency to make utilitarian moral choices by means of proportional thinking—the definitional feature of the market mindset. In Experiment 1, participants primed with market relationships made more utilitarian choices in both the trolley and the footbridge dilemmas. In Experiment 2, priming market mindset led to more utilitarian moral choices and to greater focus on the proportion o…
Trading in search of structure: Market relationships as a compensatory control tool
Rooting our model in the compensatory control theory, we propose that one reason behind the prevalence of market relationships in modern society is that the fundamental need for orderliness makes them psychologically appealing because of the structure they provide. The initial study confirmed that market relationships are perceived as more structured than communal relationships. In 13 experiments (including 2 preregistered ones), we examined the …
Money and the fear of death: The symbolic power of money as an existential anxiety buffer
The Scrooge effect revisited: Mortality salience increases the satisfaction derived from prosocial behavior
The relationship between objective and subjective wealth is moderated by financial control and mediated by money anxiety
Money as an existential anxiety buffer: Exposure to money prevents mortality reminders from leading to increased death thoughts
Would you do something for me? The effects of money activation on social preferences and social behavior in young children
Trading in search of structure: Market relationships as a compensatory control tool
Rooting our model in the compensatory control theory, we propose that one reason behind the prevalence of market relationships in modern society is that the fundamental need for orderliness makes them psychologically appealing because of the structure they provide. The initial study confirmed that market relationships are perceived as more structured than communal relationships. In 13 experiments (including 2 preregistered ones), we examined the …
Market mindset impacts moral decisions: The exposure to market relationships makes moral choices more utilitarian by means of proportional thinking
We show that exposure to market relationships increases people’s tendency to make utilitarian moral choices by means of proportional thinking—the definitional feature of the market mindset. In Experiment 1, participants primed with market relationships made more utilitarian choices in both the trolley and the footbridge dilemmas. In Experiment 2, priming market mindset led to more utilitarian moral choices and to greater focus on the proportion o…
Attachment orientations moderate people's preferences for market versus communal relationships under a control threat
In two studies, we examined the effects of a control threat and attachment orientation on people's preferences for market relationships. In Study 1, experiencing a control threat increased the willingness to seek practical support in the market rather than ask a close person for help among participants with higher attachment anxiety. In a well-powered preregistered Study 2, we replicated these results and demonstrated that they also hold for situ…
Market mindset reduces endorsement of individualizing moral foundations, but not in liberals
People with a market mindset attend to ratios and rates, and allocate rewards adequately to costs but are less sensitive to feelings. In this project, we demonstrate that activating a market mindset also affects people’s acceptance of free-market principles and their endorsement of individualizing moral dimensions—care/harm and fairness/cheating. Experiment 1 documented that a market mindset positively impacted people’s endorsement of fair market…
Psychological consequences of money and money attitudes in dictator game
Psychological consequences of money and money attitudes in dictator game According to the research conducted by Vohs, Mead, and Goode (2006, 2008), reminders of money cause people to behave self-sufficiently, and especially to reveal a reduced tendency to charitable behaviour. In this study, we wanted to establish if this tendency would be present in the dictator game, and if so, whether money activation would just change behaviour, or whether it…
Would you do something for me? The effects of money activation on social preferences and social behavior in young children
Money and the fear of death: The symbolic power of money as an existential anxiety buffer
The relationship between objective and subjective wealth is moderated by financial control and mediated by money anxiety
The Scrooge effect revisited: Mortality salience increases the satisfaction derived from prosocial behavior
Money as an existential anxiety buffer: Exposure to money prevents mortality reminders from leading to increased death thoughts
Some People Probably Need to Make More Sense: An Exploratory Study on Individual Differences and the Need for Sense-Making
We define the need for sense-making as the desire to find reliable connections between the objects, situations, and relationships that people encounter. We have proposed and tested that there are possible individual differences in the need for sense-making and that these individual differences are insightful in characterizing individuals and their behaviors. A correlational study (N = 229) showed that need for sense-making was positively related …
Market mindset impacts moral decisions: The exposure to market relationships makes moral choices more utilitarian by means of proportional thinking
We show that exposure to market relationships increases people’s tendency to make utilitarian moral choices by means of proportional thinking—the definitional feature of the market mindset. In Experiment 1, participants primed with market relationships made more utilitarian choices in both the trolley and the footbridge dilemmas. In Experiment 2, priming market mindset led to more utilitarian moral choices and to greater focus on the proportion o…
Trading in search of structure: Market relationships as a compensatory control tool
Rooting our model in the compensatory control theory, we propose that one reason behind the prevalence of market relationships in modern society is that the fundamental need for orderliness makes them psychologically appealing because of the structure they provide. The initial study confirmed that market relationships are perceived as more structured than communal relationships. In 13 experiments (including 2 preregistered ones), we examined the …
Individual Characteristics and Pain Sensitivity during Pregnancy—A Cross-Sectional Study in Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Women
The aim of the study was to describe the characteristics and factors related to pain perception in pregnant women, such as optimism, personality traits, and fear of developing COVID-19 consequences. Sixty-six pregnant women aged 23 to 42 years participated in the study, and the comparison group consisted of n = 59 non-pregnant female students aged 19 to 23 years. Pressure pain threshold and pain tolerance were measured with an algometer. To asses…
Market mindset reduces endorsement of individualizing moral foundations, but not in liberals
People with a market mindset attend to ratios and rates, and allocate rewards adequately to costs but are less sensitive to feelings. In this project, we demonstrate that activating a market mindset also affects people’s acceptance of free-market principles and their endorsement of individualizing moral dimensions—care/harm and fairness/cheating. Experiment 1 documented that a market mindset positively impacted people’s endorsement of fair market…
Psychometric validation of the polish version of the emotional style questionnaire
The need for sense-making as a personal resource: Conceptualization and scale development
Attachment orientations moderate people's preferences for market versus communal relationships under a control threat
In two studies, we examined the effects of a control threat and attachment orientation on people's preferences for market relationships. In Study 1, experiencing a control threat increased the willingness to seek practical support in the market rather than ask a close person for help among participants with higher attachment anxiety. In a well-powered preregistered Study 2, we replicated these results and demonstrated that they also hold for situ…
Conspicuous consumption and conscientious conservation: Testing for a status-prosociality link through need for uniqueness and variety seeking
Whereas the environmental impact of buying luxury goods is debated, there is evidence that purchasing such products—often referred to as conspicuous consumption —can be more sustainable than hoarding cheaper alternatives because luxury goods are more durable and are often passed down through generations, resulting in fewer resources being consumed by the average consumer. Contrary to popular beliefs that conspicuous consumption is inconsistent wi…
Religiosity Decline in Europe: Age, Generation, and the Mediating Role of Shifting Human Values
Despite the fact that age is associated with higher religiosity, the aging European population has experienced a noticeable religiosity decline over recent decades. This study aimed to explain this paradox and to link it to an intergenerational shift in the pattern of values (as conceptualized by Shalom Schwartz). We conducted extended mediation analyses on the relationships between generational affiliation and the level of personal religiosity v…
Linking Work Events with Work Engagement: Mediating Role of Emotions and Moderating Role of Psychological Capital
We examined the role of work-related emotions and personal resources operationalised as psychological capital (PsyCap) in the relationship between events occurring at work and employees’ work engagement. Using affective events theory and broaden-and-build theory as theoretical frameworks, we theorise that the perceived frequency of positive and negative events at work and work engagement is mediated by positive and negative work-related emotions …
Social assistance or agency? Attachment Styles Moderate the Impact of Control Threat on Social Relationship Preferences
Building upon Gasiorowska and Zaleskiewicz's (2021, 2023), we explored how a control threat and attachment style influence social relationship preferences. This experiment aimed to investigate how experiencing a control threat affects individuals with secure, anxious, and avoidant attachment patterns when they can choose between seeking assistance from the market, asking a close person for help, or coping with the situation alone. Participants wi…
I Cheat” or “We Cheat?” The Structure and Psychological Correlates of Individual vs. Collective Examination Dishonesty
A Systematic and Critical Review of Trust Based on Communal Vs. Market Cognitions: Emotions in Perspective
Trust researchers have recently professed the dynamic nature of trust based on cognitive and affective considerations of the context – personal vs. professional. It presents that communal sharing (personal) cognition has a different formulation of trust than the market pricing (professional) mindset. Also, incidental processing of emotion impacts the level of trust differently than the integral one. Thus, we conducted a comprehensive literature r…
Exploring Homework Help as a Predictor of Children's Well‐Being: Mediation by Gratitude and Moderation by Mother's Work Status
The study aims to explore the connection between diverse homework help sources, children's well‐being, and gratitude levels. We recruited 295 children in India (ages 7 to below 18) via snowball sampling for an online survey assessing homework help, gratitude and wellbeing. We found a positive association between using multiple sources for homework help and well‐being, mediated by gratitude. The mother's work status did not moderate the relationsh…
Mental imagery shapes emotions in people's decisions related to risk taking
This research investigates the specific effects of mental imagery on people's emotional responses and risk-taking decisions. We present findings across four studies, including three experiments, that highlight emotions as a mediator between the valence of mental images related to risk and subsequent risk-taking propensity. Our research identifies two key factors that moderate this relationship: the category of cognitive process (analytical thinki…
Label matters: How labeling and diagnosis affect lay perception of people with depressive symptoms
We investigated how the label "depression" and information about a medical diagnosis influence perceptions of individuals with depressive symptoms as legitimately experiencing depression and a medical condition. In three experiments, participants read a description of a person meeting Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) criteria for major depressive episode and manipulated whether the label "depression" and the informati…
Longitudinal Assessment of Financial Well-Being Across Europe Confirms the Multidimensionality of the Construct
Effect of age on susceptibility to the attraction effect in sequential risky decision-making
Our study aims to contribute to the existing body of research on age-related changes in decision-making by investigating susceptibility to the attraction effect across adulthood. Prior studies have produced inconsistent conclusions regarding the decision-making abilities of older individuals, with some portraying them as easily manipulated and risk-averse, while others suggest the opposite. To address this issue, we conducted two experiments usin…
Psychology (24 works) · Social Psychology (22 works) · Anxiety (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (8 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (6 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works)