Vita
Since 02/2025
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Social and Legal Psychology, University of Mainz
04/2020 – 02/2025
PhD candidate, Department of Social and Legal Psychology, University of Mainz
(Scholarship of the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Scholarship Fund, Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
10/2017 – 03/2020
Master of Science in Psychology, University of Münster
(Scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
10/2014 – 09/2017
Bachelor of Science in Psychology, University of Münster and University of Zurich (semester abroad)
Research Interests
- Representation of history
- Intergroup processes
- Morality
Research Stays
05/2024 – 07/2024 University of Kent, School of Psychology with Prof. Roger Giner-Sorolla
09/2023 – 01/2024 University of Chicago, Booth School with Prof. Ayelet Fishbach (Fulbright Scholarship)
02/2018 – 05/2018 Tel Aviv University, School of Psychological Science with Prof. Yechiel Klar
Publications
Ionescu, D. & Kazarovytska, F. (in press). Antisemitismus im Kontext von jüdisch-nichtjüdischen Begegnungen. Perspektiven und Erfahrungen von Jüdinnen:Juden in Deutschland. [Antisemitism in the context of Jewish-non-Jewish encounters. Perspectives and experiences of Jews in Germany.] In S. Schüler-Springorum (Ed.), Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung 33. Metropol.
Kazarovytska, F., Imhoff, R., & Hirschberger, G. (in press). Beyond victimhood and perpetration: Reconstruction of the ingroup’s historical role in eight Eastern and Western European countries under Nazi occupation. Political Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.13037 [Open materials and data]
Kazarovytska, F. & Imhoff, R. (in press). Rejecting an intergroup apology attenuates perceived differences between victim and perpetrator groups in morality and power. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000456 [Open materials and data]
Kazarovytska, F. & Ionescu, D. (2024). “The first Jewish person I’ve ever met”: Insights from a field study on Jewish–non-Jewish contact in Germany. Journal of Social and Political Psychology,12(1). 108-125. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.12269
Kazarovytska, F. & Imhoff, R. (2024). Three fish at one hook? Future-oriented, reconciliatory, and defensive claims for historical closure as expressions of the same defensive desire. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50(3), 351-370. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221124674 [Open materials and data]*
*SPSP Student Publication Prize 2023
Kazarovytska, F. & Imhoff, R. (2023). No differences in memory performance for instances of historical victimization and historical perpetration: Evidence from five large-scale experiments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104440 [Open materials and data]*
*Publication Award 2023 of the Social Psychology Division, German Psychological Society (DGPs)
Kazarovytska, F. & Imhoff, R. (2022). Too great to be guilty? Individuals high in collective narcissism demand closure regarding the past to attenuate collective guilt. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52(4), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2850 [Open materials and data]
Kazarovytska, F., Kretzschmar, M., Lamberty, P., Rees, J., Knausenberger, J., & Imhoff, R. (2022). From moral disaster to moral entitlement – The impact of success in dealing with a perpetrator past on claims for historical closure. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 10(1), 48-71. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.8337 [Open materials and data]