Between September 11 and 13, 2025, employees of our Institute took part in the 20th Congress of the Polish Association of Social Psychology (PSPS – event website). During the conference, they presented a number of talks and moderated thematic sessions summarizing the results of their research.
Dr. Maria Flakus chaired the thematic session “From Semantics to Polarization: How Language Shapes Social Reality”, during which, together with Hubert Plisiecki, M.Sc., she presented a talk entitled Words Divide Us: Mapping Psychological Differences in Semantic Space. Their work was a part of a research grant from the National Science Center, Poland (Sonata Bis-10: UMO-2020/38/E/HS6/00302).
Hubert Plisiecki, M.Sc. chaired the thematic session “Frontiers in Psychological Measurement and Methodology”, during which, together with Dr. Maksymilian Bielecki (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw), he presented a talk entitled Using Autoencoders to Identify and Correct Statistical Outliers in Psychometric Data. In addition, together with Dr. Marek Muszyński, Mr. Plisiecki delivered a talk entitled Using Large Language Models to Tell Constructs Apart: Generative Permutation-Based Discriminant Validity Tests, and, together with Paweł Lenartowicz (Jagiellonian University, Kraków), a paper entitled Estimating Replicability of Polish Psychology Project – Final Results.
Furthermore, within the same session, Dr. Muszyński presented his research on attention checks in the talk Checking the Checks: Developing and Validating New Types of Attention Checks for Self-Completion Surveys.
As part of the poster session, Dr. Adam Waszkowski presented a poster depicting an experiment conducted in the Research Lab for the Digital Social Sciences (National Science Center, Poland – Sonata Bis-10: UMO-2020/38/E/HS6/00302), entitled All That AI Is Not Gold: How Source and Sender Shape the Perception of AI-Generated Content.