RESEARCH
I am an Associate Professor of Psychology. I do research in social, developmental, and political psychology. I study intergroup relations, anti-immigrant attitudes, diversity, empathy, activism, and adolescent development. Find my academic CV here and my publications on ResearchGate.
RESEARCH OUTPUT
PUBLICATIONS
Hannuksela V., Söderlund, P. & Miklikowska, M. (2024). Political interest, political ideology, and attitudes toward immigration. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/vygra
Zagrean, I., Miklikowska M., & Barni, D. (2024). Essentialism facilitates anti-immigrant prejudice, reduces contact with immigrants, and explains parent-child similarity in anti-immigrant prejudice. Journal of Child and Family Studies. doi:10.1007/s10826-024-02855-6.
Eckstein K., Miklikowska, M., Serek, J., Noack, P., & Koerner, A. (2024). Activating effects of elections: Changes in young voters’ political engagement over the course of an election year. Frontiers in Political Science. doi:10.3398/fpos.2024.1302686
Mastrotheodoros, S., Hillekens, J., Miklikowska, M., Palladino, E. B., Lionetti, F. (2024). Family functioning, identity commitments, and school adjustment among immigrant-origin and native Greek adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9mzet
Thijs, J., Miklikowska, M., & Bosman, R. (2023). Motivations to respond without prejudice and ethnic outgroup attitudes in late childhood: Change and stability during a single school year. Developmental Psychology. doi.org/10.1037/dev0001565
Miklikowska, M., Tilton-Weaver, L., & Burk, W. J. (2022). With a little help from my empathic friends. The role of peers in the development of empathy in adolescence. Developmental Psychology. doi:10.1037/dev0001347
Miklikowska, M., Jasko, K. & Kudrnac, A. (2022). The making of a radical: The role of peer harassment in youth political radicalism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. doi:10.1177/01461672211070420
Miklikowska, M., Rekker R., & Kudrnac, A. (2022). A little more conversation, a little less prejudice: The role of classroom political discussions for youth attitudes toward immigrants. Political Communication. doi:10.1080/10584609.2022.2032502
Eckstein, K., Miklikowska, M. & Noack, P. (2021). School matters: The effects of school experiences on youth’s attitudes toward immigrants. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. doi:10.1007/s10964-021-01497-x
Miklikowska, M., Eckstein, K., & Matera, J. (2021). All together now: Cooperative classroom climate and the development of youth attitudes toward immigrants. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. doi:10.1002/cad.20414
Van Bommel, G., Thijs, J., & Miklikowska, M. (2020). Empathy and intergroup attitudes: The impact of the perceived peer norms. Journal of Social Psychology. doi:10.1080/00224545.2020.1840326
Tierney, W., Hardy J.H., Ebersole, C. R., Uhlmann, E. L., & Miklikowska M. (2020). Creative destruction in science. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Process. 161, 291-309. doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2020.07.002
Bohman, A., & Miklikowska, M. (2020). Does classroom diversity improve intergroup relations? Short- and long-term effects of classroom diversity for cross-ethnic friendships and anti-immigrant attitudes in adolescence. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. doi:10.1177/1368430220941592
Miklikowska, M., Bohman, A., & Titzmann, P. (2019). Driven by context? The interrelated effects of parents, peers, classrooms on development of anti-immigrant attitudes. Developmental Psychology. doi:10.1037/dev0000809
Miklikowska, M. & Bohman, A. (2019) Bridging contexts: The interplay between parents, peers, and schools in explaining ethnic majority youth reactions to growing diversity. P. Titzmann & P. Jugert (Eds.) Youth in Multicultural Societies: New directions for future research and intervention (Chapter 13, pp. 209-227). Routlege.
Miklikowska, M., Thijs, J. & Hjerm, M. (2019). The impact of perceived teacher support on anti-immigrant attitudes from early to late adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. doi:10.1007/s10964-019-00990-8
Miklikowska, M. (2018). Empathy trumps prejudice: The longitudinal relation between empathy and anti-immigrant attitudes in adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 54, 703-717. doi:10.1037/dev0000474
Miklikowska, M. (2018). Tolerance. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development (pp. 2249-2250). Sage Publications Inc. doi:10.4135/9781506307633.n834
Miklikowska, M. (2017). Development of anti-immigrant attitudes in adolescence: The role of parents, peers, intergroup friendships, and empathy. British Journal of Psychology, 108, 626-648. doi:10.1111/bjop.12236
Miklikowska, M. (2016). Like parent, like child? Development of prejudice and tolerance in adolescence. British Journal of Psychology, 107, 95-116. doi:10.1111/bjop.12124
Miklikowska, M. (2016). The apple does not fall far from the tree? In E. Lundberg (Ed.) Anthology on tolerance (pp. 271-194). Forum for Living History. ISBN: 978-91-86261-61-0
Miklikowska, M. (2012). Democracy begins at home: Parenting, empathy and adolescents’ support for democratic values. Åbo: Åbo Akademis förlag.
Miklikowska, M. (2012). Psychological underpinnings of democracy. Personality and Individual Differences, 5, 603-608. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.032
Miklikowska, M., Duriez, B. & Soenens, B. (2011). Family roots of empathy-related characteristics: The role of perceived maternal and paternal need support in adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 47, 1342-1352. doi:10.1111/bjop.12124
Fry, P. D., & Miklikowska, M. (2012). Culture of peace. In P. T. Coleman & M. Deutsch (Eds). Psychological components of sustainable peace. (pp. 227-244). NY: Springer.
Miklikowska, M., & Fry, D. (2012). Natural born nonkillers: A critique of the killers- have-more-kids idea. In Daniel J. Christie & Joam. E. Pim (Eds.) Nonkilling Psychology. (pp. 43-70). Honolulu: Center for Global Nonkilling.
Miklikowska, M., & Hurme, H. (2011). Democracy begins at home: Democratic parenting and adolescents’ support for democratic values. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 8, 541-557. doi:10.1080/17405629.2011.576856
Miklikowska, M. & Fry, D. P. (2010). Values as protective factors against war and violence. Beliefs and Values, 2, 124-137.
RECENT FUNDED GRANT PROPOSALS
2020 – Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (RJ). The role of school context in youth political activism. PI: Marta Miklikowska.
2016 – Swedish Research Council (VR). Learning to be prejudiced. PI: Marta Miklikowska.
2016 – Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (RJ). Social foundations of prejudice. PI: Andrea Bohman, Co-PI: Marta Miklikowska.
2014 – Marie Curie-Sklodowska International Postdoc Fellowship Programme (FORTE). Reducing prejudice in adolescence: The role of empathy and intergroup contact. PI: Marta Miklikowska.
RESEARCH COMMUNICATION
AUDIO-VISUAL COMMUNICATION
Guest on a podcast (Re)Searching Diversity
Flyer I designed for European Association of Developmental Psychology
Explainer video about my research made for Forum for Living History (in Swedish)
RECENT TALKS
2022 – Guest interview at the course Business Research Methods, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam. organised by Dr. Stefan Mol, 10 November.
2022 – Guest speaker: Adolescents’ attitudes toward immigrants: Risk and protective factors. Leibnitz University Hannover, Department of Developmental Psychology, organized by Prof. Peter Titzmann. 1 November.
2021 – Guest of a podcast (Re)Searching Diversity. Hosted by Dr. Jana Vietze and Dr. Tugce Aral.
2021 – Guest speaker: Adolescents’ attitudes toward immigrants: Risk and protective factors. University of Warsaw, Center for Research on Prejudice, organised by Dr. Saja Torunczyk-Ruiz. 7 April.
2020 – Guest speaker: Adolescents’ attitudes toward immigrants: Risk and protective factors. University of Stirling, Cognition Research Group, organised by Dr. Anna K. Bobak and Dr. Ailsa E. Millen. 11 December.
2019 – Guest speaker, Expra Congress, University of Luxemburg. Organised by Dr. Andreia Costa and Dr.Isabelle Albert, 27 May.
2019 – Guest speaker, External Seminar of the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations. Utrecht University, Utrecht, 18 November. Coordinated by Dr. Fenella Fleischmann.
2018 – Power Dynamics in Academia: Naming the Problems and Discussing Solutions. Panel discussion at the 16th European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA), Ghent, September 12-15. Organised by Dr. Theo Klimstra and Dr. Loes Keijsers (Tilburg University).
RECENT PUBLIC OUTREACH
2024 – Interview about my research on empathy for the German newspaper Die Zeit, Author: Tillmann Prufer.
2022 – Popular science article about my research. Empathic friends can provide the right kind of pressure. Psyche. Authors: Marta Miklikowska and Lauree Tilton-Weaver.
2020 – Popular science article about my research. How social contexts (parents, peers, school) shape youth attitudes toward immigrants. Medium. ISPP. June, 24. Author: Marta Miklikowska.
2019 – News article about my research in the Swedish Radio. Supportive teachers foster tolerance in students. Vetenskapsradion, June, 5.
2019 – Debate article in the Swedish national newspaper. Så kan skola främja tolerans hos elever. Aftonbladet, April, 19. Author: Marta Miklikowska.
2017 – Popular science article about my research. Timely study looks at the social influences possibly shaping teenagers’ prejudice towards immigrants. The British Psychological Society Research Digest, February, 2. Author: Christian Jarrett.
2017 – Popular science article about my research. How to Stop Teens from Fearing Immigrants? The Huffington Post, April, 6. Author: Jill Suttie.
RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2021 – Miklikowska, M., Bohman, A., Titzmann, P. The Role of Parents Peers, and School in the Development of Anti-Immigrant Atittudes in Adolescence. Society for Research on Child Development (virtual), April 7.
2020 – Miklikowska, M., Bohman, A., Titzmann, P. Can classroom diversity offset the negative effects of parental prejudice on Swedish majority youth’s attitudes toward immigrants? 43rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology. Virtual Conference.
2019 – Miklikowska, M. Bridging Contexts: The Interrelated Effects of Parents, Peers, Classrooms on Development of Anti-Immigrant Attitudes in Adolescence. 21st Meeting of European Association of Social Psychology on “The evolution, emergence, development, and maintenance of stereotypes”, castle Eyba/Saalfeld, June, 27.
2018 – Miklikowska, M. & Bohman, A. The Role of Parents, Peers, and Classrooms in Development of Anti-Immigrant Attitudes in Adolescence. Conference of the European Association for Research on Adolescence, Ghent, September 12-15.
2018 – Miklikowska, M. Can Empathy and Cross-Ethnic Friendships Counteract Development of Prejudice in Adolescence? 25th Biennial Congress of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Gold Coast, July 15-19.