Forschungsinteressen

  • Umgang mit Fehlverhalten und Viktimisierung
  • Wahrnehmung von Strafe und Vergebung
  • Soziale Ungleichheiten im Bildungsverlauf
  • Meta-Science
  • Imagery Rescripting

Akademischer Werdegang

2019
Promotion (Dr. phil.) am Graduiertenkolleg “Unterrichtsprozesse” - Universität Koblenz-Landau
2013 - 2015
M.Sc. Psychologie (Sozial- und Kognitionspsychologie), Universität Mannheim
2015
M.Sc. Psychologie, Universität Jyväskylä (Finnland)
2009 - 2013
B.Sc. Psychologie, Universität Koblenz-Landau

Forschungsorientierte Erfahrungen und wissenschaftliche Praxis

SoSe 2024
Vertretungsprofessur Sozialpsychologie, LMU München
seit 2018
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl Sozialpsychologie, LMU München
2015 - 2018
Doktorand des Graduiertenkollegs „Unterrichtsprozesse”, Universität Koblenz-Landau (Betreuer: Prof. Benjamin E. Hilbig, Ph.D. & Prof. Dr. Manfred Schmitt)
2013
Forschungspraktikant des Social Perception and Evaluation Lab, New York University (Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Jay van Bavel)
2013 - 2014
Studentische Hilfskraft am Lehrstuhl für Politische Psychologie - Institut für Kommunikationspsychologie und Medienpädagogik, Universität Koblenz-Landau (Betreuer: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tobias Rothmund)
2010 - 2014
Studentische Hilfskraft in der Psychotherapeutischen Universitätsambulanz (WiPP), Klinische Psychologie, Universität Koblenz-Landau (Betreuer: Dr. Jens Heider & Dr. Alexandra Zaby)

Publikationen

2024 / in press

  • Twardawski, M., Fischer, M., Agostini, P., Schwabe, J., & Gollwitzer, M. (in press). The role of just-world-beliefs, victim identifiability, and the salience of an alternative target for victim blaming. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
  • Twardawski, M., & Hilbig, B. E (2024). Retribution and utilitarianism as motives for children's third-party punishment: An information-seeking approach. Motivation Science, 10(4), 387–391. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000351
  • Twardawski, M., Gollwitzer, M., Altenmüller, M. S., Bertsch, K., Loebbestael, J., Philippi, A. L. E., & Wittekind, C. E. (2024). Victim empowerment and satisfaction: The potential of Imagery Rescripting. European Journal of Social Psychology, 54, 1182–1197. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3073
  • Twardawski, M., Angerl, E. M., & Lobbestael, J. (2024). The effect of aggressive fantasizing on aggressive inclinations: Moderating effects of dispositional anger expression. Aggressive Behavior, 50(2), e22143. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.22143
  • Stark, J., Daniel, A., & Twardawski, M. (2024). “I just don’t fit there!” Anticipated cultural fit and social disparities in students’ intention to enter higher education. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506241239993

2023

  • Ludwig, T., Altenmüller, M. S., Schramm, L. F. F., & Twardawski, M. (2023). Evading Open Science: The black box of student data collection. Social Psychological Bulletin, 18, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.9411
  • Twardawski, M., Blanke, T., & Gollwitzer, M. (2023). Receiving forgiveness in the presence of an attentive audience: A Virtual Reality Experiment. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 7(1–2), 79–109. https://doi.org/10.1080/23743603.2023.2224525
  • de Vel-Palumbo, M., Twardawski, M., & Gollwitzer, M. (2023). Making sense of punishment: Transgressors’ interpretation of punishment motives determines the effects of sanctions. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(3), 1395–1417. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12638

2022

  • Twardawski, M., & Hilbig, B. E. (2022). Comparing teachers’ and students’ perspectives on the treatment of student misbehavior. Social Justice Research, 35, 344–365. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-022-00399
  • Fischer, M., Twardawski, M., Strelan, P., & Gollwitzer, M. (2022). Victims need more than power: Empowerment and moral change independently predict victims’ satisfaction and willingness to reconcile. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123, 518-536. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000291
  • Stark, J., Daniel, A., & Twardawski, M. (2022). Social disparities in students’ intention to enter higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLOS ONE, 17, e0267978. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267978
  • Bago, B., Kovacs, M., Protzko, J., Nagy, T., Kekecs, Z., Palfi, B., …, Twardawski, M., …, & Aczel, B. (2022). Situational factors shape moral judgments in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample. Nature Human Behavior, 6, 880–895. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01319-5
  • Molho, C., Twardawski, M., & Fan, L. (2022). What motivates direct and indirect punishment? Extending the ‘Intuitive Retributivism’ Hypothesis. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 230, 84–93. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000455

2021 und davor

  • Twardawski, M., Gollwitzer, M., Altenmüller, M. S., Kunze, A. E., & Wittekind, C. E. (2021). Imagery rescripting helps victims cope with experienced injustice. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 229, 178–184. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000450
  • Twardawski, M., Steindorf, L., & Thielmann, I. (2021). Three pillars of physical distancing: Anxiety, prosociality, and rule compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Collabra: Psychology, 7, 22511. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.22511
  • Fischer, M., Twardawski, M., Steindorf, L., & Thielmann, I. (2021). Stockpiling during the COVID-19 pandemic as a real-life social dilemma: A person-situation perspective. Journal of Research in Personality, 91, 104075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104075
  • Gollwitzer, M., Platzer, C., Göritz, A. S., Zwarg, C., & Twardawski, M. (2021). Does lockdown compliance reflect a latent trait? Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(4), 884-891. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211043989
  • Twardawski, M., & Hilbig, B. E. (2020). The motivational basis of third-party punishment in children. PLOS ONE, 15, e0241919. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241919
  • Twardawski, M., Tang, K. T. Y., & Hilbig, B. E. (2020). Is it all about retribution? The flexibility of punishment goals. Social Justice Research, 33, 195–218. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-020-00352-x
  • Twardawski, M., Hilbig, B. E., & Thielmann, I. (2020). Punishment goals in classroom interventions: An attributional approach. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26, 61–72. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000223
  • Yudkin, D. A., Rothmund, T., Twardawski, M., Thalla, N., & Van Bavel, J. (2016). Reflexive intergroup bias in third-party punishment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 1448-1459. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000190