Tijana Karić Zorić Ph. D.

Research Fellow

Contact information

+49 6421 28-23625 +49 6421 28-23789 tijana.kariczoric@ 1 Gutenbergstraße 18
35032 Marburg
G|01 Institutsgebäude (Room: 02047 resp. +2047)

Organizational unit

Philipps-Universität Marburg Psychologie (Fb04) AG Sozialpsychologie, Wirtschaft, Methoden Sozialpsychologie
  • Short Biography

    2008-2011 Bachelor studies in Psychology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
    2011-2013 Master studies in Psychology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia; Master thesis: „Family factors as predictors of offender recidivism: Attachment theory perspective“
    2013-2020 PhD in Psychology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia; Thesis: „Social construction of reconciliation between Serbs and Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina”
    2018-2019 Teaching Associate, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
    2013-2015 Teaching Associate, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
    2013 Research intern, Institute of Forensic Sciences and Security of the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
    2015-2016 PhD researcher, Research Center of Mind, Brain and Behavior, University of Granada, Spain
    2017-2018 PhD researcher, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
    2017-2021 Research Fellow, Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research, Belgrade, Serbia
    2021-2023 Humboldt postdoctoral research fellow at Philipps- Universität Marburg
    Since 2023 Research fellow at Philipps- Universität Marburg
  • Publications

    Karić, T., Eckerle, F., & Cohrs, J. C. (2025). The West and the rest: the Westernised nature of Europe (anness). Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2025.2500399

    Karić, T., Van Assche, J., & Swart, H. (2024). ‘It always seems impossible, until it is done’: Perspectives on reconciliation and its underlying processes in post‐conflict societies. European Journal of Social Psychology, 54(5), 1015-1021. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3066

    Karić, T., & Cohrs, J. C. (2023). Failed to unite? Conceptualizations of Bosnian–Herzegovinian national identity. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 29(4), 345–354. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000681

    Karić, T. (2021). Public Perceptions of the COVID-19 Policy Responses in Serbia: Do People Trust the State to Handle the Crisis? In: Arnautovic, S. (Ed.), Die COVID-19-Pandemie und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Staaten des Westbalkans. Eine Bestandsaufnahme für den Zeitraum 2020-2021 [The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the Western Balkan countries. A stocktaking for the period 2020-2021]. Tectum Verlag (in press).

    Karić, T., Međedović, J. (2021). COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and containment-related behaviour: the role of political trust. Journal of Personality and Individual Differences, 175, 110697. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110697 

    Karić, T., Mihić, V. (2020). Construing reconciliation – lay people definitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina: a qualitative approach. Primenjena psihologija, 13(2), 211-242.

  • Other

    Editorial Board member, Journal Psihologija

    Reviewing Editor, International Journal of Social Psychology

    Member of the Small Grant Committee, APA Division 48: The Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology

  • Research Interests

    Psychology of peace, conflict and reconciliation

    (Geo)political psychology

    Intergroup threat

    Social representations of identity

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