Understanding Social Change

CONTENTS: Introduction; Understanding Social Change: Political Psychology in Poland; Is Habermasian Ideal Feasible?; Cognitive and Motivational Factors Underlying Individual Responses to Political Conflicts; Attracted to Conflict: A Dynamical Perspective on Malignant Social Relations; Self-Interest in Social and Political Perception; Authoritarianism in Poland in the Days of System Transformation; Consequences of Patriotism: is Ethnocentrism Inevitable?; Feeling of Integration with Socio-Political System and Authoritarian-Ethnocentric Syndrome as Two General Factors Determining Attachment to a Country; Poland and European Integration: Hopes, Fears and National Attitudes; What Poles Believe Now and What They Think They Believed Ten Years Ago: Opinion Change in Post-Communist Poland (1992-2002); The Adaptation to Social Change: for Whom the Third Republic of Poland is a Mother, for Whom it is a Step-Mother; Political Orientations of Actors in the Systemic Change in Poland as an Effect of Mental Process Dynamics; Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations: Relationship with Ideology and Economic Beliefs in Eastern and Western Europe; Index.