Staff profile

I study the ways in which stories motivate human behaviour. My theoretical focus is on value instantiation - the process through which universal evolutionarily-defined motivations get expressed in everyday behaviours. My applied work includes research on terrorism, health behaviour, electoral politics, climate and anti-war activism using traditional, and computational social science methods.

• Human Values
• Attitude Formation
• Social Influence
• Computational Social Science

Journal Article

• Grigoryan, L., Ponizovskiy, V., Weißflog, M. I., Osin, E., & Lickel, B. (online). Guilt, shame, and antiwar action in an authoritarian country at war. Political Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12985
• Doell, K. C., Todorova, B., Vlasceanu, M., Bak Coleman, J. B., Pronizius, E., Schumann, P., Azevedo, F., Patel, Y., Berkebile-Wineberg, M. M., Brick, C., Lange, F., Grayson, S. J., Pei, Y., Chakroff, A., van den Broek, K. L., Lamm, C., Vlasceanu, D., Constantino, S. M., Rathje, S., Goldwert, D., …Van Bavel, J. J. (in press). The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries. Scientific Data, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03865-1
• Grigoryan, L., Ponizovskiy, V., & Schwartz, S. (2023). Motivations for violent extremism: Evidence from lone offenders’ manifestos. Journal of Social Issues, 79(4), 1440-1455. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12593
• Ponizovskiy, V., Grigoryan, L., Kühnen, U., & Boehnke, K. (2019). Social Construction of the Value–Behavior Relation. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00934