ARU researcher
Magdalena Zawisza
Associate Professor
ARU's Dr Magdalena Zawisza has been one of the nine lead researchers of the 229-researcher Towards Gender Harmony 62-country research consortium. The project investigated gender beliefs among over 33,000 undergraduates, and was the largest mega-study of its kind, now published in Nature.
Magdalena is a lead author of a paper titled 'Worse for Women, Bad for All: A 62-Nation Study Confirms and Extends Ambivalent Sexism Principles to Reveal Greater Social Dysfunction in Sexist Nations', which was published in Social Psychological and Personality Science.
The Towards Gender Harmony data was collected between January 2018 and February 2020, from mostly undergraduate students, usually online. The dataset comprises 33,313 observations and 286 variables, including measures of gendered self-views, gender attitudes, stereotypes, and relevant demographic information. It is the largest study of its kind.
Zawisza, M., Kosakowska-Berezecka, N., Glick, P., Olech, M., Besta, T., Jurek, P., Sobiecki, J., Best, D. L., Bosson, J. K., Vandello, J. A., Safdar, S., Włodarczyk, A. and Żadkowska, M. (2025) 'Worse for Women, Bad for All: A 62-Nation Study Confirms and Extends Ambivalent Sexism Principles to Reveal Greater Social Dysfunction in Sexist Nations', Social Psychological and Personality Science, 16(8). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506241302882
Kosakowska-Berezecka, N., Besta, T., Jurek, P., Olech, M., Sobiecki, J., Bosson, J., Vandello, J. A., Best, D., Zawisza, M., Safdar, S., Włodarczyk, A. and Żadkowska, M. (2024) 'Towards gender harmony dataset: gender beliefs and gender stereotypes in 62 countries', Scientific Data, 11(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03235-x
Kosakowska-Berezecka, N., Bosson, J. K., Jurek, P., Besta, T., Olech, M., Vandello, J. A., Bender, M., Dandy, J., Hoorens, V., Jasinskaja-Lahti, I., Mankowski, E., Venäläinen, S., Abuhamdeh, S., Agyemang, C. B., Akbaş, G., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., Ammirati, S., Anderson, J., Anjum, G., … Zawisza, M., Żadkowska, M. (2022) 'Gendered Self-Views Across 62 Countries: A Test of Competing Models', Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14(7), pp. 808-824. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221129687
Bosson, J. K., Jurek, P., Vandello, J. A., Kosakowska-Berezecka, N., Olech, M., Besta, T., Bender, M., Hoorens, V., Becker, M., Timur Sevincer, A., Best, D. L., Safdar, S., Włodarczyk, A., Zawisza, M., Żadkowska, M., Abuhamdeh, S., Badu Agyemang, C., Akbaş, G., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., … Žukauskienė, R. (2021) 'Psychometric Properties and Correlates of Precarious Manhood Beliefs in 62 Nations', Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 52(3), pp. 231–258. Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221129687
Kosakowska-Berezecka, N., Besta, T., Bosson, J. K., Jurek, P., Vandello, J. A., Best, D. L., Włodarczyk, A., Safdar, S., Zawisza, M., Żadkowska, M., Sobiecki, J. , ... Zukauskiene, R. (2020) 'Country-level and Individual-level predictors of men's support for gender equality in 42 countries', European Journal of Social Psychology Special Issue: Solidarity in the Spotlight, 50(6), pp. 1276-1291. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2696
Associate Professor