Mgr. Shpend Voca, Ph.D.

Institute of Psychology
The Czech Academy of Sciences
Veveří 97
602 00 Brno 
Phone: +420 532 290 278                                 
E-mail: shpend.voca@psu.cas.cz
Web: https://www.brno-lab.eu

Research interests

• Intergroup relations in post-conflict societies
• Intergroup reconciliation and conflict
• Victim beliefs
• Group apology and forgiveness

Education

• 2015 - 2020: Social Psychology (Ph.D.), Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Projects

Principal investigator

• 2023: Intergroup contact and anti-Gypsyism. European Association of Social Psychology/Collaborative Research Grant

Team member

• 2024 - 2028: 02.01.01/00/22_008/0004583 DigiWELL “Research of Excellence on Digital Technologies and Wellbeing”within The Johannes Amos Comenius Programme funded by the Czech Ministry of Education and European Union
• 2022 - 2024: The Role of Distinct Types of Social Norms in Improving Conflictual Intergroup Relations (23-06170S)

Selected publications

• Voca, S., Telaku, N., & Van Assche, J. (2024). Right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and attitudes toward peace and war: The role of symbolic and realistic threat. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13059
• Kende, A. Nyul, B., Hadarics, M. Carmona-Lopez, C., Ciordas, P. De Cristofaro,, V., …, Voca, S., & Lasticova, B. (2024). Addressing anti-Gypsyism with context-dependent psychological tools: Research review, meta-analysis and secondary analysis of prejudice against the Roma. European Review of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2024.2362123
• Rupar, M., Voca, S., & Graf, S. (2024). The Link Between Social Norms and Reconciliation and Behavioural Intentions in Post-Conflict Societies. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000730 [joint first author]
• Voca, S., Graf, S., & Rupar, M. (2023). Victimhood beliefs are linked to willingness to engage in intergroup contact with the former adversary through empathy and trust. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 26(3), 696–719. https://doi.org/10.1177/136843022210848
• Zingora, T., Birtel, D. M., Graf, S., Hrebickova, M., Lacko, D., Rupar, M., Tocik, J., & Voca, S. (2023). Development of prejudice against immigrants and of behavior that limits COVID-19 transmission and in 6 European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. European Journal of Social Psychology. 53(4). 645-663. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2928
• Rupar, M., Graf, S., & Voca, S. (2022). Contact with former adversaries through mass-media is linked to forgiveness after dyadic and multiethnic conflicts. European Journal of Social Psychology. 52(5-6), 963–9 https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2878
• Voca, S. (2019). Student pair work as a tool to promote active learning among students in Kosovo. In ‘Early career academics’ reflections on learning to teach in Central Europe’. Gabriela Pleschová and Agnes Simon (eds.). ISBN: 978-1-902435-63-3. [book chapter]