Dr H.F. (Hanna) Szekeres
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Profile
Hanna Szekeres is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. She currently holds a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship funded by the EU Horizon program. Prior to her current position, she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Psychology at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary, where she also earned her PhD in Social Psychology. She previously conducted research at Harvard University as a Fulbright Scholar, at University of Amsterdam as a visiting doctoral researcher and she was a research assistant at MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Her research is situated at the intersection of social and political psychology, with a focus on social cognition, moral decision making, intergroup conflict and reconciliation, prejudice and prejudice reduction interventions. She has investigated these processes in a range of international contexts, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, anti-Roma hostility in Eastern Europe, gender and heterosexist bias, and educational discrimination against Muslim girls in the Netherlands.
Research and teaching expertise
• Intergroup relations and reconciliation
• Prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination
• Bystander confronting and moral decision-making
• Gender and heterosexism
• Intergroup and psychosocial interventions
• Collective action, social change and empowerment
• Radicalization and de-radicalization
• Experimental methodology and Impact assessment -
Research
Research methods
- Experimental research
- Field experiments
- Cross-sectional research
- Longitudinal designs
- Mixed methods
Current research projects
- Paternalism and Psychological Interventions for Promoting Empowerment and Educational Integration among Minority Girls
Research grants & honours
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Netherlands, 2024-2026
• Best Dissertation Award, International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), 2023
• New National Excellence Programme (ÚNKP) scholarship, Hungary, 2020-2021
• Fulbright scholarship, Visiting Researcher, USA 2018-2019 -
Teaching
- Supervision of Bachelor and Master theses (Department of Psychology)
- Co-supervision of PhD student
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Publications
2025
- Ciordas, P., Hadarics, M., Szekeres, H., & Kende, A. (2025). The Power of Warmth: Warmth Perception and Social Change-Oriented Allyship with LGBTQ+ People. Sexuality and Culture. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-025-10373-w
- Szekeres, H., Bruneau, E., & Doosje, B. (2025). Dual pathway of prejudice in education: teachers’ paternalistic and hostile prejudice affecting minority girls. Social Psychology of Education, 28, Article 103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-025-10061-5
- Urbiola, A., López-Rodríguez, L., Torres-Vega, L. C., Poslon, X. D., Lášticová, B., Pántya, J., Szekeres, H., & Kende, A. (2025). Believing that social change is possible: Collective efficacy to promote engagement and mobilization of non-Roma as allies. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64(3), Article e12895. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12895
2024
Doosje, B., Szekeres, H., Cáceres Quezada, E., Boiger, M., & Kende, J. (2024). The intergroup level: Moral emotions in intergroup relations- the motivations and consequences of advantaged group members' aims to challenge the intergroup inequality. In N. Ellemers, S. Pagliaro, & F. van Nunspeet (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of the Psychology of Morality (pp. 179-189). (Routledge international handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003125969-27 [details]- Szekeres, H., & Čabarkapa, Đ. (2024). Myths and Reality About Confronting Anti-Gay Prejudice: Who Confronts and Why (Not)? Journal of homosexuality, 71(5), 1139-1162. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2022.2161085
- Szekeres, H., Lantos, N. A., Faragó, L., Nyúl, B., & Kende, A. (2024). When the shoe does not fit: The role of perspective-taking orientation in a perspective-taking prejudice reduction intervention. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 34(2), Article e2785. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2785 [details]
2023
- Szabó, Z. P., Witkowska, M., & Szekeres, H. (2023). When and why moral exemplars fail to motivate intergroup reconciliation. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 41(1), 51-71. https://doi.org/10.1002/crq.21391
- Szekeres, H., Halperin, E., & Saguy, T. (2023). The mother of violations: Motherhood as the primary expectation of women. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(4), 1875-1896. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12661
- Szekeres, H., Halperin, E., Kende, A., & Saguy, T. (2023). Endorsing negative intergroup attitudes to justify failure to confront prejudice. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 26(7), 1499-1524. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221120488
- Szekeres, H., Halperin, E., Kende, A., & Saguy, T. (2023). The aversive bystander effect whereby egalitarian bystanders overestimate the confrontation of prejudice. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 10538. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37601-3
2020
- Bruneau, E., Szekeres, H., Kteily, N., Tropp, L. R., & Kende, A. (2020). Beyond dislike: Blatant dehumanization predicts teacher discrimination. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 23(4), 560-577. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430219845462
- Szekeres, H., Shuman, E., & Saguy, T. (2020). Views of sexual assault following #MeToo: The role of gender and individual differences. Personality and Individual Differences, 166, Article 110203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110203 [details]
2019
- Szekeres, H., Halperin, E., Kende, A., & Saguy, T. (2019). The effect of moral loss and gain mindset on confronting racism. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 84, Article 103833. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103833
2018
- Saguy, T., & Szekeres, H. (2018). Changing minds via collective action: Exposure to the 2017 Women’s March predicts decrease in (some) men’s gender system justification over time. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 21(5), 678-689. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430217750475
2015
- Saguy, T., Szekeres, H., Nouri, R., Goldenberg, A., Doron, G., Dovidio, J. F., Yunger, C., & Halperin, E. (2015). Awareness of Intergroup Help Can Rehumanize the Out-Group. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6(5), 551-558. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550615574748
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Doosje, B., Szekeres, H., Cáceres Quezada, E., Boiger, M., & Kende, J. (2024). The intergroup level: Moral emotions in intergroup relations- the motivations and consequences of advantaged group members' aims to challenge the intergroup inequality. In N. Ellemers, S. Pagliaro, & F. van Nunspeet (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of the Psychology of Morality (pp. 179-189). (Routledge international handbooks). Routledge.