CHRISTOPHER M. FEDERICO (http://www.psych.umn.edu/psyfac/core/Social/federico.htm)

Ph.D., 2001, University of California, Los Angeles; works as assistant professor in Department of Psychology and Political Science at University of Minnesota

Interests: Political psychology; inter-group relations and racial attitudes; the psychology of legitimacy; political expertise.

Ph.D., 1999, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology, doctoral thesis on development of political thinking and attitudes towards political conflict. Works as assistant professor (adjunct) in Institute of Psychology Polish Academy of Sciences and Warsaw School of Social Psychology.

Interests: political, ethnic conflict, inter-group relations, political development, information processing and political decisions

Studied psychology in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (BA), obtained MA in sociology, at CEU,
Prague, MA in Nationalism Studies, CEU, Budapest; works on a
PhD thesis at Political Science Department, CEU, Budapest.

Interests: authoritarianism, anti-Semitism and anti-Gypsy prejudice, structure of
political attitudes, voting behavior, political tolerance, nationalism, evolutionary
psychology, quantitative methods.

ELZBIETA WESO£OWSKA

Ph.D., 1999, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology, doctoral thesis: "Adaptation of employees to market changes at their workplace. Psychological determinants". Works as assistant professor (adjunct) at Warminsko - Mazurski University in Olsztyn.

Interests: strategies of psychological adaptation to political and economic transformation in Poland, psychological mechanisms of entrepreneurial behaviors in the sphere of economics, socio- cultural preconditions of private entrepreneurship development in Poland