Research interests

  • Treatment of norm-violating behavior and victimization experiences
  • Perception of punishment and forgiveness
  • Social disparities in educational attainment
  • Meta-Science
  • Imagery Rescripting

Education

2019
Ph. D. in Psychology Graduate School “Teaching and Learning Processes”, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
2013 - 2015
M.Sc. Psychology (Social and Cognitive Psychology), University of Mannheim, Germany
2015
M.Sc. Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
2009 - 2013
B.Sc. Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

Research and academic experience

Summer semester 2024
Interim Professor for Social Psychology, LMU Munich
since 2018
Research and teaching assistant at the Social Psychology Lab at the LMU Munich
2015-2018
Ph.D. Student at the Graduate School “Learning and Teaching Processes”, University of Koblenz-Landau (Supervisors: Prof. Benjamin E. Hilbig, Ph.D. & Prof. Dr. Manfred Schmitt)
2013
Research intern at the Social Perception and Evaluation Lab, New York University (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jay van Bavel)
2013-2014
Student research assistant at the Political Psychology Lab – Institute for Communication and Media Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau (Supervisor: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tobias Rothmund)
2010-2014
Student research assistant at the Ambulance for Psychological Therapy (WiPP), Clinical Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau (Supervisors: Dr. Jens Heider & Dr. Alexandra Zaby)

Publications

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

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