Members of the Department actively participated in Methodological Inspirations 2026, a conference devoted to the methodology of the social sciences, organized by the Committee on Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. As in previous years, the conference was held in Jabłonna near Warsaw.
During the conference, the following presentations were delivered by authors or co-authors affiliated with CSS:
- Careless Responding and the Quality of Measurement Models in Confirmatory Factor Analysis: An Analysis of European Social Survey Data from 2008–2023. Piotr Jabkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Marek Muszyński
- No More Absurd Questions: How to Measure Respondent Attention Discreetly and Effectively Using Subtle Attention Checks (ACES). Marek Muszyński
- New Types of Attention Checks in Self-Report Surveys: A Comparison of Student and Panel Samples. Katarzyna Kubik (University of Warsaw), Marek Muszyński
- From CFA-WE to SEM-WE: Structural Equation Models Using Word Embeddings. Artur Pokropek
- An Alternative Approach to Factor Analysis Using Word Embeddings. Tomasz Żółtak
- From Identity to Language: Semantic Correlates of Collective Narcissism and National Identification. Maria Flakus (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences), Hubert Plisiecki (IDEAS Research Institute), Kinga Małyska (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences; Jagiellonian University), Adam Waszkowski (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences; SWPS University), Artur Pokropek (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences)
