Dr. Mathias Twardawski, M.Sc.

Research interests:

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

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., Angerl, E. M., & Lobbestael, J. (2024). The effect of aggressive fantasizing on aggressive inclinations: Moderating effects of dispositional anger expression. Aggressive Behavior, 50(2), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.22143
• Stark, J., Daniel, A., & Twardawski, M. (2024). “I just don’t fit there!” Antici-pated 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

• 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

2020 and before

• 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