Biljana Jokić, associate professor

Main research interests in the fields of social psychology and individual differences: psychological aspects in judgment and decision making, thinking styles, attitudes-behaviour relationship, with a particular focus on the role of emotions and body awareness in these processes. Additional interest: mental health and subjective wellbeing.

Danka Purić, associate professor

The main fields of my interests are constructs at the intersection of cognition and personality, with an emphasis on individual differences. I am particularly interested in different ways of measuring and assessing human abilities and traits, on both a theoretical, and a methodological / practical plain.

Goran Knežević, full professor

My research focus is on Disintegration as a basic personality trait. This means defining the structure of this trait; determining its relationships with other personality traits; testing the hypothesis about the key mechanism that generates individual differences along this dimension through research on correlations between disintegration and measures of perceptual and cognitive false positive errors; contributions of disintegration in predicting various mental phenomena and behaviors (primarily irrational beliefs and behaviors) that are incremental in relation to other personality traits; determining the significance of disintegration for understanding psychoses and other mental disorders. In addition, I am also interested in the dispositional foundations of (a)moral behavior, the dispositional foundations of socio-political and ideological attitudes, as well as militant extremism. I am also interested in the biological foundations of behavior. I am very interested in the moderating role of dispositions on the relationships between environmental events and behavior.

Goran Opačić, associate professor

Individual differences in area of personality, intelligence, executive function; Physiological basis of individual differences, especially in the field of personality; development of new methods of examining individual differences especially using new technologies in personality research, development of new psychometric methods, application of knowledge in the field of individual differences in human resource management, sport and medicine.

Iris Žeželj, full professor

I am exploring different forms of biases, especially self-enhancing and group enhancing ones. In the domain of intergroup relationships, I am studying complex social identities, relationships between majorities and minorities, the role of history in identity building.

More recently, I have become preoccupied with irrational/epistemologically suspect beliefs (e.g. conspiratorial, pseudoscientific), especially in the domain of health, and their relation to questionable health practices that can be deceptive or downright dangerous.

Ljiljana B. Lazarević, senior research associate

My research focus is on personality model encompassing disintegration trait. In my research I like to use multi-method approach and to conduct studies using different ambulatory assessment tehniques.

Marija Branković, associate professor

I conduct research in social and political psychology, particularly on topics related to social identities and intergroup relations. My current research focuses on human-animal interactions. I am devoted to socially relevant and engaged science.

Marko Živanović, senior research associate

My main interests are research and measurement of individual differences in higher cognitive functions, as well as their neural bases. Additionally, my interests include research on basic personality structure, as well as development adaptation and evaluation of psychological assessment tools.

Maša Vukčević Marković, research associate

My research focuses on mental health, particularly on developing and evaluating a wide range of psychological and social interventions aimed at enhancing mental health and well-being. My work spans individual-focused interventions as well as those addressing broader social and systemic factors.

Additionally, I study trauma and secondary trauma, investigating the effects of traumatic experiences on individuals, marginalized groups and communities. I am interested in identifying protective factors that support recovery.

Predrag Teovanović, associate professor

In my research, I apply the methodological and conceptual framework of individual differences psychology to explore questions of rationality and optimal cognitive functioning.

Sanda Stanković, research associate

My research interests are mental-health related, specifically: cognitive-behavioral models of emotional disorders; feminist psychology and psychotherapy, and intimate relationships.

Tamara Džamonja Ignjatović, full professor

My interests are related to the field of mental health, individual, family and social factors that impair it, but also those that represent factors of resilience. I am particularly interested in psychosocial interventions aimed at improving mental health, as well as recovery from trauma. I am also interested in the development and improvement of instruments for the assessment of various aspects of personality.

Vojin Simunović, research associate

My master’s thesis concerns self-presentation and socially desirable responding, while my PhD thesis focuses on the development of social cognition (understanding others’ emotions, phobias, etc.). Generally speaking, I find most topics within social psychology interesting, especially social cognition.

Zoran Pavlović, full professor

My research focuses on the psychology of values, with a particular emphasis on cross-cultural variations and contextual determinants of value preferences.

Additionally, I am interested in political behavior, political polarization, and ideological identities, as well as children and youth studies, focusing on the civic education effects, peer violence, and online behavior.