Science popularization
Texts
Dark personality traits are linked to gaslighting in relationships, study finds
Study links inferiority and superiority complexes to specific personality traits
New study provides insight into the psychological core of dark personality traits
Study suggests people with narcissistic tendencies are more likely to adopt certain love styles
Aggressiveness – A Trait with Many Meanings
For more text in Serbian see http://bojanadinic.com/sr/popularizacija-nauke/
Talks
2016 TEDx Novi Sad – Is revenge really sweet?
2023 “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence” at the University of Novi Sad – Involvement in digital violence from the perspective of women
2024 Winter school “Gender and violence” at University of Novi Sad – Gender and digital violence
2023 30th Empirical Studies in Psychology, Belgrade, Serbia, Nenad Havelka Lecture of Honor: Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Early Phase of a Scientific Career – Illuminating dark personality traits
2022 IX scientific-professional conference “Strengthening the potential for preventive activities in the community”, Osijek, Croatia, Invited lecture – Shining light on the dark personality traits
2022 Lecture at Lusofona University, Portugal – How do we perceive visual stimuli?
2022 Public class of behavioral genetics at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad in which I presented GENIUS project
2022 FMKlab colloquium at the Faculty of Media and Communications – An eye for an eye! Dispositional and situational factors of aggression
2021 The European Researchers’ Night – Cosmic conversations with Dr. Tijana Prodanović: Dark traits
2021 Festival of Mental Health – A guide to preventing the risky use of social networks among adolescents
Guide is available at: https://digitalna.ff.uns.ac.rs/sadrzaj/2021/978-86-6065-654-6
2020 The European Researchers’ Night – “Weird” behaviors during pandemic
More about this topic at https://doi.org/10.19090/pp.20.4.489-504
2020 Webinar of the EU info network about our heroes during pandemic in which I presented our work about helping during pandemic in Serbia – Oni su heroji – na muci se poznaju junaci
2020 TraNSfer’s colloquium at the Festival of Mental Health – Distance yourself physically, not socially: How does the loss of physical contact affect the maintenance of social ties?
More about this topic at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.624035/abstract
2020 The first online colloquium during pandemic in Serbia in organization of the Laboratory of experimental psychology, Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade – Aggression as revenge and antisocial act: What characteristics does it depend on, in what conditions does it appear, and is it inherited?
2019 Conference of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences – ISSID 2019, Florence, Italy, Invited lecture – The exploration of socially toxic traits and behaviors
2019 Petnica Science Center, Lecture – Natural born killers: True or myth? Interaction of genes and environment on aggressive behavior
2019 Laboratory for experimental psychology, Faculty of Philosophy in Banja Luka, Lecture – Cognitive measures in personality psychology and statistical workshop – Linear mixed models analysis in R (with Milica Popović Stijačić)
2019 The European Researchers’ Night; Participant at the program On a coffee with scientists
2018 The European Researchers’ Night, Guest at the panel discussion Effect of social networks: status – it’s complicated
2018 Laboratory for experimental psychology, Faculty of Philosophy in Banja Luka, Lecture – Don’t get mad, get even! Effects of dispositional and situational factors on aggressive behavior
2017 Petnica Science Center, Lectures – Is revenge sweet? Effects of personality traits and provocation on aggressive behavior;
What do we pay attention to when we are provoked? Effects of personality traits and provocation on attention bias
2015 Laboratory for experimental psychology, Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, Lecture – Effects of dispositional and situational factors on aggressive behavior
2010 Animation Volda Festival, Volda, Norway, Invited lecture – Eye candy or brutality? How different people perceive affective visual stimuli
Workshops
Research team of the Centre for behavioral genetics actively participate in science popularization manifestations:
from 2018 Twins Days at the University of Novi Sad
2016 The European Researchers’ Night – Genes + Environment = YOU: Why you are COOL?
2016 Science Festival 2016 – Who is your history character twin?
2015 Science Festival 2015 – Who is your movie star twin?
2014 Science Festival 2014 – How similar you are?
Media
2023 Interview for the magazine of students of the Faculty of Biology in Belgrade “Simbioza”
2024 In the “In lab” podcast, we talked about dark personality traits – how they manifest in different environments and contexts (occupational, intimate relationships, online environment), how hereditary they are, whether there is a phenomenon of “corporate psychopathy” and much more.
2022 In podcast of MultiRadio “Women in Science” I shared with the listeners why psychology is interesting, what is the best way to promote science among youth, what are the challenges for women in science and much more.
2023 The Public Broadcasting Service of Vojvodina, emission “Žena u kutiji” in which we talk about violence against women in public spaces
2023 The Public Broadcasting Service of Vojvodina, emission “Dobro jutro, Vojvodino” in which we talk about violence in public spaces
2023 Dnevnik, Interview about the Nenad Havelka Lecture of Honor: Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Early Phase of a Scientific Career
2023 Euronews Serbia, Ilija Milovanović and I gave an interview about the STAR Twin Registry
2022 In the TV show “Jutro” on Prva I talked about STAR Twin Registry and importance of twin and epigenetics studies, results of the first twin study in Serbia regarding heritability of some characteristics, cultural transmission from parent to child and future activities of the STAR Center
2022 In the TV show “Uranak” on K1, Aleksandra Milutinović and I talked about the Serbian Twin Advanced Registry – STAR and some aspects of raising the twins
2022 Radio show “Eureka” about the first twin study in Serbia and citizen science program within GENIUS project
2022 RTV emission “Dokument” about panic buying in crisis situations
2021 Podcast at “O radio” about digital violence in which Ilija Milovanović presented results of our project “Socio-psychological factors of risky use of social networks among adolescents in Vojvodina”
2020 Podcast “Rastrojavanje” in which we talk about documentary “The Social Dilemma” and impact of social networks on our lives
2020 Podcast “O tome se priča” in which Aleksandar Oparnica and I talk about our research regarding how athletes handle curfew during pandemic in Serbia
2020 Radio show “Eureka” about research regarding psychological effects of COVID–19 pandemic. In Part 1 Bojana Bodroža and I presented our study about helping behavior and in Part 2 Aleksandar Oparnica and I presented our study about effects of physical activity on mental health and social contacts, both during pandemic in Serbia
2020 The Public Broadcasting Service of Vojvodina, emission “Jutarnji program” in which we talk about aggression among children
2019 The Public Broadcasting Service of Vojvodina, emission “Jutarnji program” on the occasion of World Science Day in which we talk about my research and ISSID award
2019 The Public Broadcasting Service of Vojvodina, emission “Vojvodinom” on the occasion of my ISSID award for the Best Young Career Researcher Award in 2019
2018 Radio Television of Serbia, emission “Beogradska hronika” in which we talk about the first twin study in Serbia