JANUSZ REYKOWSKI, professor of psychology at the Polish Academy of Science, is one of the founders and the head of the Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences. He is the author of numerous publications on psychological stress and personality, on psychology of emotions and motivation, on political conflict and political thinking, as well as on social and moral values. Professor Reykowski is a recipient of various Polish and foreign awards. He was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences Stanford, CA. Professor Reykowski was awarded the Nevitt Sanford Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution to Political Psychology by the International Society of Political Psychology in 2000.

DANIEL BAR-TAL is professor of social psychology at Tel-Aviv University. His interest focuses on studying beliefs shared by collectives, including their acquisition, functions and consequences. Specifically, he studied beliefs about conflict, delegitimization, siege mentality, security, patriotism and reconciliation, as well as collective emotional orientation of fear and hope. He authored and co-edited numerous books on these topics and published over hundred articles and chapters in major social and political journals and books. He served as President of the International Society of Political Psychology, was awarded the 1991 Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Prize of SPISSI, and received the Golestan Fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, where he was a fellow during 2000-2001.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

AGNIESZKA GOLEC, PhD, is a member of a junior faculty at Warsaw School of Social Psychology and Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences. She participated in the Summer Institute in Political Psychology in Ohio (1996) and wrote her PhD thesis in political psychology. She received Fulbright Scholariship (1999) and realized postdoctoral program in political psychology at University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include political conflict, development of political thinking and interplay of cognitive, emotional and motivational processes in shaping political attitudes and behavior.
She organized or helped organize several international conferences.