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LIRA Lab Participants: Zoran Pavlović

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In this study, a measure capturing cultural logics is collaboratively developed and validated, allowing for the mapping of world cultures based on the prevalence of these logics. The interrelations of dignity, honor, and face with prosocial behavior, values, moral beliefs, and religiosity will be further explored, as well as the generalizability of these relationships across cultures. Historical antecedents (e.g., resource scarcity) and current correlates (e.g., inequality) of the country-level prevalence of these cultural logics will also be examined.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Danka Purić, Iris Žeželj

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In the large-scale experiment proposed here, a culturally diverse sample of participants will solve problems that elicit appealing yet incorrect intuitions twice: first, intuitively, then, reflectively, allowing them to correct initial errors in a 2 (feedback: absent vs. present) × 2 (answer justification: absent vs. present) between-participants design. We will also examine the role of cross-cultural and individual differences, including metacognitive aspects of error recognition, in corrective behaviour.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Iris Žeželj, Jovan Ivanović, Milica Ninković

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This research examines emotion norms and their role in transforming conflicts in societies with histories of collective violence. Emotion norms are defined as the perceived prevalence or desirability of emotions within groups related to specific events or issues. The project aims to conduct a large-scale, multi-site study to map and potentially influence emotion norms and policy attitudes in various global conflict settings.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Aleksandra Lazić

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The aim of the project is to increase diversity and inclusion in open and big-team psychological science. Through a series of hackathons with researchers from low-to-middle-income countries (LMICs), a set of guidelines for improving the accessibility and uptake of open and big-team science will be developed. Open science resources will be translated into different languages and blueprints for future webinars with early career researchers and those in LMICs will be developed. Suggestions for big-team science projects focused on the interests and needs of researchers from countries that have been underrepresented in psychology will be put forward.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Zoran Pavlović

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The primary goal of the research is to describe the phenomenon of school violence from the perspectives of students, parents, and school staff, i.e., to identify key areas of school life where intervention is necessary to establish a safe school environment. More specifically, the research aims to determine the extent and intensity of (1) experiences of violence and (2) violent behavior, (3) their relationship with individual factors (socio-demographic characteristics, dispositions, and skills), family factors (socio-economic status, parental mediation, parenting skills, attitudes towards children), and school factors (beliefs and perceptions of staff, characteristics of the school environment), as well as (4) indicators of children’s social and emotional well-being (subjective well-being, mental health).

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LIRA Lab Participants: Zoran Pavlović

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The project aims to develop a database of a large number of replication studies that would be freely available for further use.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Zoran Pavlović

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FORRT’s replications and reversals aims to collate replications and specifically so-called reversal effects in social science. Reversals are—in the context of a replication—effects that have their original direction flipped. This resource aims to be a “living”, freely available, crowd-sourced, and community-driven collection of effects that have either not been replicated or even reversed through empirical research across social sciences.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Aleksandra Lazić, Danka Purić, Goran Knežević, Goran Opačić, Iris Žeželj, Ljiljana B. Lazarević, Marija Branković, Marija Petrović, Marko Živanović, Milica Ninković, Petar Lukić, Predrag Teovanović, Sanda Stanković

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The REASON4HEALTH project examines the psychological foundations of two groups of questionable health practices: 1) non-adherence to official medical recommendations, such as preventive public health measures (e.g., vaccination) or prescribed drug therapy or other treatment and 2) the use of scientifically unverified traditional, complementary and alternative medicine treatments such as traditional herbal medicines, chiropractic or reflexology…

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LIRA Lab Participants: Danka Purić, Iris Žeželj, Marko Živanović, Milica Manojlović

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TWINNIBS aims to strengthen the research and innovation capacities to tackle main challenges in the multidisciplinary field of non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS). NIBS is a set of techniques for transcranial (non-invasive) modulation of the activity in the specific brain areas and the large-scale brain networks to which they contribute. This is an innovative approach to neuroscience research and, ultimately, the clinical treatment of a wide spectrum of neuropsychiatric conditions. TWNINIBS will be a coordination and support tool to bring NIBS research in Serbia to a new level by partnering with leading European research and innovation (R&I) institutions from Denmark, Italy, Germany, and Austria.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Jovan Ivanović

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LIRA Lab Participants: Zoran Pavlović

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A large international study measuring the size and effect of semantic priming in 19 languages aims, among other things, to create a comprehensive database that will be available for further analyses and the development of methodological procedures in the analysis of semantic priming.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Biljana Jokić, Danka Purić, Iris Žeželj

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The main aim is to replicate key findings underpinning Construal Level Theory (CLT). CLT suggests that psychologically distant things are more abstractly represented than psychologically close ones. That mechanism is assumed for four forms of psychological distance: temporal, spatial, social, and likelihood. Four experiments are planned, each examining one of these distances.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Zoran Pavlović

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The aim of the research is to analyze people’s understanding and theories about societal development and what type of “good life” is considered most desirable. Additionally, the goal is to answer the question of how social development can help achieve different types of “good life,” as well as which psychological variables or personal characteristics are associated with differences in the valuation of various aspects of social development and personal and/or social well-being. The research also focuses on intercultural differences related to these phenomena; it is part of an international research collaboration involving participants from 50 countries around the world.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Zoran Pavlović

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The International study “EUKids Online” is one of the most important European studies on the use of digital technology and the internet among children and young people. The study covers a wide range of topics: access to and use of the internet and social networks, students’ digital competencies, risky behaviors online, digital violence, exposure to harmful content, excessive internet use, mediation by parents, students, and teachers, and students’ sense of belonging to school.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Draga Šapić, Jana Dimoski, Maša Vukčević Marković

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LIRA Lab Participants: Draga Šapić, Irena Stojadinović, Jana Dimoski, Maša Vukčević Marković

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LIRA Lab Participants: Danka Purić, Marija Petrović, Predrag Teovanović

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Our project aims at studying the following research challenges: (1) does the model based on the principles from the literature describe human reasoning (descriptive aspect) and (2) what can we do to bring people closer to being rational (prescriptive aspect)?

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LIRA Lab Participants: Iris Žeželj, Milica Ninković

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This project aims at collecting and digitizing folktales, stories of wisdom, from ethnic, religious and racial groups residing in the cities involved in the project (Nicosia, Belgrade, Ankara, and Groningen) and make them easily accessible and freely available to everyone.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Iris Žeželj, Zoran Pavlović

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This research explores lay beliefs about detecting infections through sensory cues, focusing on disgust responses to sounds, distinguishing visual reactions to pathogens versus parasites, and the link between disgust sensitivity and adherence to cultural traditions.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Biljana Jokić, Danka Purić, Iris Žeželj, Ljiljana B. Lazarević

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The goal of the project is to systematically re-examine previously reported relationships between anger, gender, and status conferral. Of particular interest is replicating the finding (Brescoll & Uhlmann, 2008), predicted from the broader literature on prescriptive stereotyping, that expressing anger elicits backlash against female, but not male managers.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Biljana Jokić, Danka Purić, Iris Žeželj, Ljiljana B. Lazarević

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To accelerate research progress, the Center for Open Science (COS) partnered with the DARPA program Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) in 2019 on work towards developing and deploying automated tools that provide rapid, scalable, and accurate confidence scores for research claims.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Zoran Pavlović

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MARPOR aims to collect and conduct a comparative, quantitative content analysis of the pre-election programs of political parties and coalitions. The database for analyzing political preferences includes over 1,000 parties from 1945 to the present in more than 50 countries across five continents. The programs are analyzed to identify seven main thematic domains and 57 specific political positions.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Draga Šapić, Irena Stojadinović, Maša Vukčević Marković

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LIRA Lab Participants: Draga Šapić, Jana Dimoski, Maša Vukčević Marković

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LIRA Lab Participants: Aleksandra Lazić, Danka Purić, Iris Žeželj, Ljiljana B. Lazarević

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REPOPSI is a LIRA Lab’s repository which allows everyone to freely use and share Open-Access psychological scales, tests, and other research instruments translated into Serbian or developed by Serbian scientists. By implementing Research Data Alliance’s recommendations, this project aimed to improve REPOPSI’s TRUSTworthiness as well as the FAIRness of its (meta)data. The project focused on building the repository’s technologies needed to improve its adherence to the principles of User Focus, Sustainability, Findability, and Interoperability. Various dissemination activities promoted further uptake of project outputs. To increase the number of instruments, three students were trained to search and document open doctoral theses.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Irena Stojadinović, Jana Dimoski, Maša Vukčević Marković

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LIRA Lab Participants: Irena Stojadinović, Jana Dimoski, Maša Vukčević Marković, Matija Gvozden, Milica Manojlović

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LIRA Lab Participants: Iris Žeželj

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Collaboration of over 100 researchers pooled available resources to launch a rapid international survey with the goal of creating a historical record of certain psychological and behavioral responses to the corona pandemic. The study incorporated cross-cultural, longitudinal, and integrative data science methods to maximize the scientific value and re-use potential of the data

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LIRA Lab Participants: Marko Živanović

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The project aims to explore the neural underpinnings of consciousness through large-scale multicenter studies that focus on collecting MRI data alongside a wide spectrum of behavioral outcomes to build predictive models for normal and pathological cognitive functioning.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Irena Stojadinović, Jana Dimoski, Maša Vukčević Marković

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LIRA Lab Participants: Draga Šapić, Jana Dimoski, Marko Živanović, Maša Vukčević Marković

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LIRA Lab Participants: Irena Stojadinović, Jana Dimoski, Marko Živanović, Maša Vukčević Marković, Matija Gvozden, Milica Manojlović

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LIRA Lab Participants: Iris Žeželj, Milica Ninković

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Reducing gender imbalances in European research institutions and generating data to support the development of national and European policy for gender equality in research performing organisations

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LIRA Lab Participants: Goran Knežević, Ljiljana B. Lazarević

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LIRA Lab Participants: Zoran Pavlović

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The research focused on analyzing attributes (e.g., attractiveness, intelligence) that people consider desirable in romantic relationships and are at the center of (interdisciplinary) research on interpersonal attraction. The primary goal of this study is to answer the question of whether people positively evaluate their romantic partners to the extent that their attributes align with the ideals they hold.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Draga Šapić, Irena Stojadinović, Jana Dimoski, Maša Vukčević Marković, Petar Lukić

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LIRA Lab Participants: Zoran Pavlović

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The goal of the project was to gather scientists from around the world to examine the psychological factors underlying attitudes and behavioral intentions related to COVID-19. The focus was on factors such as beliefs in conspiracy theories, cooperation, risk perception, social belonging, intellectual humility, national identification, collective narcissism, moral identity, political ideology, self-esteem, and cognitive reflection. The aim was to generate a large multinational sample of representative samples that could serve as a public good for the scientific community. Over 250 researchers collected data from more than 50,000 citizens in 69 countries.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Marko Živanović

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MEMORYST aims to improve the effectiveness of transcranial electric stimulation (tES) of parieto-hippocampal cortical network on memory functions through optimizing and personalizing stimulation protocol by adjusting tES oscillations to individual theta rhythm which is considered to be a neurophysiological marker of memory. The project thus aims to develop a novel frequency-modulated tDCS protocol and demonstrate its positive effects on the physiological, neurocognitive, and behavioral levels.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Iris Žeželj, Zoran Pavlović

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The aim of this research was to examine whether parents and individuals with higher levels of parental motivation (i.e., those who feel more positively toward children) are more socially conservative. Previous studies have shown that parenting – and the factors that make parenting more prominent – is associated with lower risk-taking and more cautious behavior. Socially conservative attitudes are linked to risk prevention strategies, so the goal of the study was to test the hypothesis that parents and individuals who are more interested in children would hold more conservative views.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Biljana Jokić, Danka Purić, Iris Žeželj, Ljiljana B. Lazarević

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In moral dilemmas options can be consistent with either deontological perspectives (emphasizing rules, individual rights and duties) or with utilitarian perspectives (following the greater good based on consequences). This project empirically tested the universality of the effects of intent and personal force on moral dilemma judgements in 45 countries from across the world. The presence of personal force exerts influence on moral judgements in all cultural clusters, suggesting it is culturally universal, while the cultural universality of the personal force and intention interaction effect was inconclusive.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Irena Stojadinović, Marko Živanović, Maša Vukčević Marković

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LIRA Lab Participants: Zoran Pavlović

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The project aimed to examine various aspects of individual, group, collective, and institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Draga Šapić, Irena Stojadinović, Maša Vukčević Marković

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LIRA Lab Participants: Draga Šapić, Maša Vukčević Marković

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LIRA Lab Participants: Draga Šapić, Marko Živanović, Maša Vukčević Marković

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LIRA Lab Participants: Iris Žeželj, Petar Lukić

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The Action pursued the inquiry in three broad areas: the manifestations and modes of transmission of conspiracy theory in different historical and cultural contexts; the variety of actors and audiences involved in the production and consumption of conspiracy theories; and the psychological and cultural causes and political consequences of belief in conspiracy. Working closely with stakeholders, this Action built a better understanding of conspiracy theories in order to develop an effective response to them. Action adopted a comparative approach, investigating the causes, manifestations and effects of conspiracy theories in different regions and times, and drawing on insights from history, politics, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and psychology.

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LIRA Lab Participants: Marko Živanović, Maša Vukčević Marković

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LIRA Lab Participants: Irena Stojadinović, Marko Živanović, Maša Vukčević Marković

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LIRA Lab Participants: Marko Živanović, Maša Vukčević Marković

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LIRA Lab Participants: Marko Živanović, Maša Vukčević Marković

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LIRA Lab Participants: Iris Žeželj

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The aim of the COST Action was to advance knowledge on the role played by social representations of history in processes of ethnic, national, and European identity construction and intergroup conflicts. It coordinated research on 1) the psychological antecedents of lay representations of history; 2) their content and structure; 3) their transmission through history textbooks and other media; and 4) their social psychological effects in shaping attitudes. The Action stimulated scientific cooperation among social psychologists and historians sharing an interest in history education from a wide range of countries. This was done through four Working Groups, two international conferences, Short-Term Scientific Missions, a summer school, and a dedicated website. The Action had an impact in both scientific and public domains through academic and public dissemination.

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