It was a pleasure to present our cross-cultural SD4 study across 20 countries at #ECP22 @eapp-official.bsky.social I thoroughly enjoyed the conference and the fruitful discussion following the presentation. Many thanks to all 31 my co-authors for this great collaboration!

Honoured and grateful to deliver a keynote at #BSPID2026 at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Many thanks to the organisers for the invitation and to everyone who joined the engaging discussion. It was a pleasure to share work on dark personality traits and psychopathology.

Excited to be giving a keynote at the British Society fir the Psychology of Individual Differences (BSPID) Conference. Looking forward to inspiring discussions and to meeting colleagues in Edinburgh!

Honored to be the first recipient of the "Konstantin Momirović" award for outstanding international scientific contribution, presented by the Serbian Psychological Society. Grateful for this recognition and for the support of my collaborators. On to new research challenges!

Body image, health behaviors & Dark Tetrad traits predict self-objectification—but not in the same way 🔹 Body satisfaction protects 🔹 Machiavellianism & sadism ↑ risk Different mechanisms underlie surveillance, shame & control beliefs

🚨Our new paper is out🚨 We explored how the D4 predicts changes in impression management scores across two conditions - honest and faking good. Check it out: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Our study on relations between darkntraits and intimate partner cyberviolence on @psypost.bsky.social 👇

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People consistently overestimate the social backlash of changing their political beliefs, new psychology research shows

It’s not just dark traits — it’s how people cope that explains health outcomes Secondary psychopathy emerged as the strongest risk factor, while narcissistic admiration and primary psychopathy showed protective patterns The key mechanism 👉 emotion-oriented coping doi.org/10.1002/ijop...

More research from our students! How gender and relationship status shape real, ideal, and false self-presentation on social media? 👉Single women reported more impression-management oriented self-presentation compared to women in a relationship

Proud to mentor Kristina Puzović and her study presented at the conference Empowering Potential for Preventive Activities in the Community in Osijek It’s always rewarding to support young researchers as they develop ideas, refine methods and gain confidence in sharing their work

Our paper is out!📄 Are men and women equally likely to engage in cyber intimate partner violence? How dark traits help explain who is more likely to perpetrate this violence? Full text: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/R5MGT...

Thanks to YouthDMH COST Action and my host, Esra, for the opportunity to expand my knowledge and skills in conducting a systematic review

The first YouTube podcast ISSID INSIGHTS highlights our research published in #PAID @elsevierconnect.bsky.social. We applied a newly developed procedure based on network analysis to evaluate measurement invariance of the Short Dark Triad across 14 cultures 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=g241...

Finally arrived! I would like to thank the big international team from 14 countries and members of #TRIBES #COSTAction for pull this out, and this is only the beginning of our joint work.

Ready for ISSID conference, see you in Vienna!

🚨New paper alert! We explored the network invariance of Short Dark Triad across 14 cultures using novel approach based on exploratory graph analysis. 🌎Unique features of each trait are universal, but others (revenge, entitlement) vary doi.org/10.1016/j.pa... @atomashevic.bsky.social

🆕Just published! The Machiavellian Approach and Avoidance Questionnaire gets a deeper look—validated across Germany, Canada, UK, Serbia with 1,800+ participants Findings challenge the boundary between Machiavellianism and psychopathy 👀 📄 doi.org/10.1080/0022...

The Machiavellian Approach and Avoidance Questionnaire: Further Validation and Evidence of Cross-National Validity

Researchers on antagonistic personality traits debate about an appropriate measurement approach to Machiavellianism. One measure intended to resolve this discourse, the Machiavellian Approach and A...

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🚨 New publication in Sexual Abuse We explored psychometric properties of two instruments for measuring rape myth acceptance 📊 IRMA-S-2022 for deeper insights into the subcategories of rape myths 📊 newly developed brief 9-item RMQ-S 📖 doi.org/10.1177/1079...

Our study in PsyPost 👇 We found interesting results and debunked the myth of the Dark Empath

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How are dark triad traits associated with emotional functioning?

Great response to our poster about brief scale of attitudes about obesity at the 27th Bujas Psychology Days in Zagreb, Croatia! Fruitfull discussions, valuable feedback, and lots of interest.

🧠 Great talk by @simine.com on "Where are the self-correcting mechanisms in science?" at the 27th Bujas Psychology Days conference in Zagreb. Thought-provoking and timely! Can't wait to hear more about the SPPSPSSPP project.

My students will be presenting our work at the 27th Bujas Days in Zagreb! We developed a scale measuring attitudes toward obesity – excited to share it!

Full professor – level unlocked! 🎓🚀 All the latest versions of papers, R syntax warnings, late-night marathons through seminar papers and tests, desk rejects, reviewers asking you to prove God, and a never-ending supply of coffee to get here

🚨Check our new paper! Parental dark traits shape parenting and adolescent behavior, but in Serbia's more traditional culture, context like poverty and past trauma adds a surprising twist. Great collaboration with Lauren Ferguson, Kostas Papageorgiou, and Tayler Truhan 🤝

A Tri‐Directional Examination of Parental Personality, Parenting, and Context on Adolescent Behaviors: A Replication and Extension in a New Cultural Context | Request PDF

Request PDF | A Tri‐Directional Examination of Parental Personality, Parenting, and Context on Adolescent Behaviors: A Replication and Extension in a New Cultural Context | Introduction The aim of thi...

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I am exited to propose and lead cross-national research on the individual and social factors of religious-based cyberbullying within @orbitcostaction.bsky.social Stay tuned!

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🌟 Full house in Sevilla! 🇪🇸 Over 70 members of the ORBIT COST Action Network from across Europe are gathered at the University of Sevilla for two days of working group and management committee meetings.

🚨New method in studying old relations! 🚨 Are Dark Triad traits differently related to self-reported and task-performance domains of emotional functioning? 👇 t.co/Wxi9MdrMWW Thanks to Beata Grabovac and @atomashevic.bsky.social for the fruitful collaboration

🧠🧬New paper alert! Our twin study reveals that personality traits and executive functions share strong genetic roots. Some facets from Openness & Conscientiousness show the highest genetic links, highlighting the need for a more nuanced approach. 👇 rdcu.be/d8ejM

🌐 Curious about the future of AI and education? Join us at our Erasmus+ AI@Smile event! Save the date - January 28th at 11:30 CET. aismile-project.eu

🚨We have a new paper that explores the common genetic and environmental factors contributing to the co-occurrence of anxiety disorders and dimensions of the revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory Check it at👇 authors.elsevier.com/c/1kNuibXYiv...

Men consistently score higher on Machiavellianism than women, but this gap widens in more gender-equal countries because women’s scores decrease, while men’s scores remain stable regardless of societal gender… #GenderEquality #WomenEmpowerment #Machiavellianism #SocialPsychology #PersonalityTraits

Women exhibit less manipulative personality traits in more gender-equal countries

Men consistently score higher on Machiavellianism than women, but this gap widens in more gender-equal countries because women’s scores decrease, while men’s scores remain stable regardless of societal gender equality levels.

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