Piotr Dragon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4263908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piotr Dragon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piotr |
| FAMILY NAME | Dragon |
| SIGNATURE | DRAGON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jagiellonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0480-2695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Facing the unknown with hope or fear
In both lay discourse and scientific analyses, uncertainty has been often portrayed as threatening, and “fear of the unknown” has been typically proclaimed as people’s natural reaction to unpredictability. Diverse research programs in psychology emphasised the human tendency to avoid uncertainty, seek cognitive closure, crave security, and compensate for self-uncertainty by self-affirmation. Yet there is also evidence that people may feel comfort…
Two Sources of Alienation from Society
Explaining the Relationship Between Agency and Communion by Means of Lay Personality Theories and Connectionist Modeling
Research on the relationship between the “Big Two” dimensions of social perception—Agency and Communion—has produced inconsistent findings, from independence to positive, negative, or curvilinear associations. We propose that these inconsistencies stem from individual differences in cognitive representations of how traits interrelate, i.e., lay personality theories (LPTs). Using connectionist modeling, we simulated impression formation processes …
Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries
The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries ( N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower status, but there is variation across people and countries. The association between subjective status a…
Need for closure and compensatory rule‐based perception
When making comparisons, people tend to use routinized standards, rules, and knowledge structures. Compensatory rules (e.g., “if competent, then cold”, “if incompetent, then warm”) allow for the quick and easy evaluation of groups when they are compared. We claim that the application of these rules is especially attractive for people who are motivated to seek quick and firm answers (people high in the need for closure— NFC ). However, we assume t…
Disparate roads to certainty processing strategy choices under need for closure
This paper describes a programme of research addressing an intriguing inconsistency in research findings about cognitive processes under a high need for cognitive closure (NFC). While early studies demonstrated that individuals who seek closure opt for closed-minded cognitive strategies, a growing body of research has identified a number of circumstances in which individuals who are high in NFC engage in effortful, open-minded information process…
Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries
The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries ( N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower status, but there is variation across people and countries. The association between subjective status a…
Need for closure and compensatory rule‐based perception
When making comparisons, people tend to use routinized standards, rules, and knowledge structures. Compensatory rules (e.g., “if competent, then cold”, “if incompetent, then warm”) allow for the quick and easy evaluation of groups when they are compared. We claim that the application of these rules is especially attractive for people who are motivated to seek quick and firm answers (people high in the need for closure— NFC ). However, we assume t…
Disparate roads to certainty processing strategy choices under need for closure
This paper describes a programme of research addressing an intriguing inconsistency in research findings about cognitive processes under a high need for cognitive closure (NFC). While early studies demonstrated that individuals who seek closure opt for closed-minded cognitive strategies, a growing body of research has identified a number of circumstances in which individuals who are high in NFC engage in effortful, open-minded information process…
Need for closure and compensatory rule‐based perception
When making comparisons, people tend to use routinized standards, rules, and knowledge structures. Compensatory rules (e.g., “if competent, then cold”, “if incompetent, then warm”) allow for the quick and easy evaluation of groups when they are compared. We claim that the application of these rules is especially attractive for people who are motivated to seek quick and firm answers (people high in the need for closure— NFC ). However, we assume t…
Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries
The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries ( N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower status, but there is variation across people and countries. The association between subjective status a…
Facing the unknown with hope or fear
In both lay discourse and scientific analyses, uncertainty has been often portrayed as threatening, and “fear of the unknown” has been typically proclaimed as people’s natural reaction to unpredictability. Diverse research programs in psychology emphasised the human tendency to avoid uncertainty, seek cognitive closure, crave security, and compensate for self-uncertainty by self-affirmation. Yet there is also evidence that people may feel comfort…
Two Sources of Alienation from Society
Explaining the Relationship Between Agency and Communion by Means of Lay Personality Theories and Connectionist Modeling
Research on the relationship between the “Big Two” dimensions of social perception—Agency and Communion—has produced inconsistent findings, from independence to positive, negative, or curvilinear associations. We propose that these inconsistencies stem from individual differences in cognitive representations of how traits interrelate, i.e., lay personality theories (LPTs). Using connectionist modeling, we simulated impression formation processes …
Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (4 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (2 works) · Alienation (1 works)