Dr. Karolina Dyduch-Hazar

Academic History

March 2023 - Onwards

Research Fellow, Department of Motivational and Emotional Psychology, Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

March 2021 - September 2021

Fulbright Scholar, Department of Psychology, Social Psychology and Neuroscience Lab, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States

October 2017 - October 2023

PhD in Experimental Social Psychology, Institute of Psychology, SWPS University, Warsaw, Poland

Peer-reviewed Journals

Dyduch-Hazar, K., Mrozinski, B., & Golec de Zavala, A. (2024). The pleasure of revenge predicts both vengeful and benevolent motivations toward the provocateur. Aggressive Behavior, 50, e70009. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.70009

Dyduch-Hazar, K., & Gollwitzer, M. (2024). Feeling bad about feeling good? How avengers and observers evalute the hedonic pleasure of taking revenge. Social Psychological Bulletin, 19, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.12477

Dyduch-Hazar, K. (2024). Sadism in the context of intergroup aggression. Aggressive Behavior, 50, e22128. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.22128

Dyduch-Hazar, K., & Mitschke, V. (2023). Affective preferences in benign masochism. Journal of Research in Personality, 107, 104429.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104429

Dyduch-Hazar, K., & Mrozinski, B. (2023). Satisfaction is mine: Revenge seeking following extrinsic reward. The Journal of Social Psychology, 163(1), 52-61.  https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2022.2090309

Other Academic Publications

Conference Talks

Dyduch-Hazar, K., Mitschke, V., & Eder, A. B. (2024, July). Schadenfreude after vicarious revenge: A facial EMG study. Paper presented at the World Meeting of the International Society for the Research on Aggression, Munich, Germany. 

Dyduch-Hazar, K., & Mitschke, V. (2024, July). Feeling pleasure after experiencing pain: Self-regulation in benign masochism. Paper presented at the Conference of the International Society for the Research on Emotion, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Dyduch-Hazar, K., Mitschke, V., & Eder, A. (2024, March). Schadenfreude after vicarious revenge: A facial EMG study. Paper presented at the 66th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Regensburg, Germany. 

Dyduch-Hazar, K. & Chester, D. S. (2023, July). Us versus them? Sadism and intergroup aggression. Poster presented at the 19th General Meeting of European Association of Social Psychology, Cracow, Poland.

Dyduch-Hazar, K., Mrozinski, B., Golec de Zavala, A., & Chester. D. S. (2022, July). The pleasure of revenge fosters both retribution and reconciliation. Poster presented at the World Meeting of the International Society for Research on Aggression, Ottawa, Canada.

Dyduch-Hazar, K., & Mrozinski, B. (2022, July). Revenge seeking following extrinsic reward. Poster presented at the World Meeting of the International Society for Research on Aggression, Ottawa, Canada.

Dyduch-Hazar, K., Mrozinski, B., Golec de Zavala, A., & Chester. D. S. (2022, February). The pleasure of revenge fosters both retribution and reconciliation. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco, CA, United States.

Dyduch-Hazar, K., & Mrozinski, B. (2021, February). Rocky road from transgression to forgiveness: The role of beliefs about revenge. Poster presented at the Virtual Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX, United States.

Dyduch-Hazar, K., Mrozinski, B., & Golec de Zavala, A. (2019, July). Introducing Hedonistic Beliefs About Revenge Scale. Paper presented at the Conference of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, Florence, Italy.

Talks and Interviews

Nesweek Poland: People intuitively approve revenge but it has paradoxical consequences.

Newsweek Poland (Psychology): The origins and emotional aftertaste of revenge.

Science Blogs