Our publications

2025

Place attachment (s) and addiction to virtual places: a longitudinal analysis.

Lassota, I., Oleksy, T., Gambin, M., Wnuk, A., (2025).

Are virtual places perceived as real? Belief in equivalence of virtual and physical spaces and its role in shaping willingness to migrate to virtual worlds.

Lassota, I., Oleksy, T., Gambin, M., Wnuk, A., (2025).

How do attachments to people and places affect the relationship between the use of virtual places and mental health?

Lassota, I., Oleksy T., Wnuk, A., Gambin, M.,(2025).

Family support for patriarchal culture and misogyny in Poland: Moderating factors. Translational Issues in Psychological Science.

Starowicz, A., Wnuk, A., Oleksy, T., Szołtysek, M., Gambin, M. (2025).

Right to the Smart City: Evaluating Smart Urban Policies through Lefebvrian Lens. Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Domaradzka, A., Widla, L., Wnuk, A., Biesaga, M., Oleksy, T. (2025).

2024

‘Home is just a feeling’: Essentialist and anti-essentialist views on home among Ukrainian war refugees. Emotion, Space and Society, 53, 101052.

Wnuk, A., Góralska, J. (2024).

Virtual changes in real places: understanding the role of place attachment in Augmented Reality adoption. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 102386.

Oleksy, T., Lassota, I., Wnuk, A., Wcześniak, R. (2024).

2023

Attached to place, threatened by newcomers? The threat to a place's cultural continuity as a mediator between place attachment and attitudes towards war refugees. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 102182.

Wnuk, A., Oleksy, T., Lewicka, M. (2023).

Migration to the metaverse and its predictors: attachment to virtual places and metaverse-related threat. Computers in Human Behavior, 141, 107642.

Oleksy, T., Wnuk, A., Piskorska, M. (2023).

Collective action mitigates the negative effects of COVID-19 threat and anti-abortion restrictions on mental health. Social Science & Medicine, 335, 116225.

Wnuk, A., Oleksy, T., Gambin, M., Woźniak-Prus, M., Łyś, A., Holas, P. (2023).

Essentialist and anti-essentialist meanings of place: A new scale and implications for place attachment and openness to outgroups. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 88, 102030.

Lewicka, M., Wnuk, A., Prusik, M., Toruńczyk-Ruiz, S., Iwańczak, B., Oleksy, T., Kula, A. M. (2023).

What shapes our attitudes towards algorithms in urban governance? The role of perceived friendliness and controllability of the city, and human-algorithm cooperation. Computers in Human Behavior, 107653.

Oleksy, T., Wnuk, A., Domaradzka, A., Maison, D. (2023).

Attachment to real-world places and willingness to migrate to metaverse virtual worlds. Journal of Environmental Psychology, , 102161.

Oleksy, T., Wnuk, A., Lassota, I. (2023).

2022

Barriers and facilitators of willingness to vaccinate against COVID-19: Role of prosociality, authoritarianism and conspiracy mentality. A four-wave longitudinal study. Personality and Individual Differences, 111524.

Oleksy, T., Wnuk, A., Gambin, M., Łyś, A., Bargiel-Matusiewicz, K., Pisula, E. (2022).

2021

Prosociality and endorsement of liberty: Communal and individual predictors of attitudes towards surveillance technologies. Computers in Human Behavior, 106938.

Wnuk, A., Oleksy, T., Domaradzka, A. (2021).

Pandemic trajectories of depressive and anxiety symptoms and their predictors: Five-wave study during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland. Psychological medicine, 1-7.

Gambin, M., Oleksy, T., Sękowski, M., Wnuk, A., Woźniak-Prus, M., Kmita, G., Holas, P., Pisula, E., Łojek, E., Hansen, K. (2021).

Investigation of prospective effects of emotion-regulation difficulties and empathic dimensions on depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 outbreak in poland. European Psychiatry, 64, S255-S255.

Gambin, M., Woźniak-Prus, M., Sękowski, M., Holas, P., Wnuk, A., Oleksy, T., Cudo, A., Hansen, K., Huflejt-Łukasik, M., Łyś, A. (2021).

Dynamic relationships between different types of conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and protective behaviour: A four-wave panel study in Poland. Social Science & Medicine, 280, 114028.

Oleksy, T., Wnuk, A., Gambin, M., Łyś, A. (2021).

The way we perceive a place implies who can live there: Essentialisation of place and attitudes towards diversity. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 75, 101600.

Wnuk, A., Oleksy, T., Toruńczyk-Ruiz, S., Lewicka, M. (2021).

A cognitively-gated place? The role of need for closure in a biased perception of the place’s past. Current Psychology, 40, 3659-3670.

Wnuk, A., Oleksy, T., Toruńczyk-Ruiz, S. (2021).

Place attachment and acceptance of smart city technologies. Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2487.

Wnuk, A., Oleksy, T. (2021).

Content matters. Different predictors and social consequences of general and government-related conspiracy theories on COVID-19. Personality and individual differences, 168, 110289.

Oleksy, T., Wnuk, A., Maison, D., Łyś, A. (2021).

Too attached to let others in? The role of different types of place attachment in predicting intergroup attitudes in a conflict setting. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 75, 101615.

Wnuk, A., Oleksy, T. (2021).

2020

Uwarunkowania Objawów Depresji i Leku Uogólnio-Nego u Dorosłych Polaków w Trakcie Epidemii Covid-19-Raport z Pierwszej Fali Badania Podłuznego. Uniwersytet Warszawski

Maison, D., Oleksy, T., Wnuk, A. (2020).

Generalized anxiety and depressive symptoms in various age groups during the COVID-19 lockdown in Poland. Specific predictors and differences in symptoms severity. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 152222.

Gambin, M., Sękowski, M., Woźniak-Prus, M., Wnuk, A., Oleksy, T., Cudo, A., Hansen, K., Huflejt-Łukasik, M., Kubicka, K., Łyś, A. E. (2020).

Do women perceive sex robots as threatening? The role of political views and presenting the robot as a female-vs male-friendly product. Computers in Human Behavior, 106664.

Oleksy, T., Wnuk, A. (2020).

The acceptance of Covid-19 tracking technologies: The role of perceived threat, lack of control, and ideological beliefs. Plos one, 15, e0238973.

Wnuk, A., Oleksy, T., Maison, D. (2020).

2019

On the essentialism of places: Between conservative and progressive meanings. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 65, 101318.

Lewicka, M., Rowiński, K., Iwańczak, B., Bałaj, B., Kula, A. M., Oleksy, T., Prusik, M., Toruńczyk-Ruiz, S., Wnuk, A. (2019).

2018-2016

Catch them all and increase your place attachment! The role of location-based augmented reality games in changing people-place relations. Computers in Human Behavior, 76, 3-8.

Oleksy, T., Wnuk, A. (2017).

Augmented places: An impact of embodied historical experience on attitudes towards places. Computers in Human Behavior, 57, 11-16.

Oleksy, T., Wnuk, A. (2016).